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Word: sal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later an outraged posse arrived at Susanna Wells's popular brothel in Enfield Wash (a section of London), house they found a raffish crew: susanna Wells herself; Sal Howit, her daughter; a young whore called Virtue Hall; a laborer and his tippling wife; and a hideous old gypsy named Mary Squires. But for all its ominous air, the house failed to match Elizabeth's description. The only room that could possibly have been her "empty loft" was thick with ancient, unbroken cobwebs. One window was boarded, but there was another not even latched. There were no footprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystery of the Vanishing Virgin | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...Sal Hepatica is up about 40%, Vick's Vaporub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wartime Medicine Chest | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...objective in a general assault upon Morocco. Landings were made north of the city at coastal Mehdia, to the south on the narrow shore of Fedhala and Bouznika; then immediate marches upon Rabat's own airdrome, which was quickly evacuated by the Vichy -french, and on another at Salé, eight miles northeast of the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Dawn's Early Light | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

While correspondents wondered how he would attack the British strongholds near the border-Fort Capuzzo, Salûm, Halfâya-a British communiqué dryly remarked that "much enemy movement" had been observed to the south. Shells from heavy field guns in Bardia, crashing over the British positions, protected this movement. The British saw that again they were in danger of being outflanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EGYPT: Rommel Rolls | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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