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Word: pours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willkie train rocked eastward into the last two weeks before election. Newsmen waited to hear the exchange when the golden Roosevelt voice began to pour across the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nobly Save or Meanly Lose | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Also on the program is a soothing little job called "Maryland." It's all very horsy, very colorful, and there's Brenda Joyce in a sweater and Fay Bainter being a witch about the whole thing. A pleasant oil to pour over the ruffled waters whipped up by the first feature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON MOVIEGOER | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week ambled two cows, two horses, five sheep, seven dogs, a covey of Congressmen. At the far end of the ballroom a tier of seats was jammed with spectators. On the sawdust-sprinkled floor, a man in white moved into a spotlight to pour several gallons of Epsom salts through a tube into a cow's stomach. The show was no circus, but a serious scientific meeting-one of the clinical sessions of the American Veterinary Association's annual convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Animal Lore | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...While piping hot dip in cold honey until completely covered. . . ." When we got hot over the blitzkrieg that swept 13 nations out of sight, the Japs began to pour the cold honey. . . . Every contemptible compromise of principle was proposed so that Japan could: ". . insert entire morsel in mouth and leisurely devour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...south, in temperatures of 120° Fahrenheit. The British made two stands outside of Berbera and then departed. Great Britain, with only 120,000 troops in the Middle East and with a situation in India too delicate to permit heavy troop withdrawals from there, was in no position to pour in enough men for a real defense. The Italians viewed Berbera as one more base from which to harry Aden in their effort to close off the Red Sea. The British, who have destroyed or driven to cover all Italian warships (mostly submarines) east of Suez, fell back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Little Dunkirk | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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