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Word: nauseous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AFRICAN POISON MURDERS -Elspeth Huxley*- Harper ($2). This one has everything, including literary quality. Herr Munson, a nauseous Nazi farmer on the veldt, is paid off in a native African poison. Inspector Vachell can't understand the mutilated ducks and dogs, and the reader gets the creeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in January | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia's Hole | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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