Word: seeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important thing that can come out of the Institute is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, but the general flow of attitudes toward study and research, which can seep down to the very roots of education. Our purpose is to be of the utmost possible service to general American scholarship...
...much R.A.F. slang will seep into the dictionary is a lexicographer's guess, but some of its catchier terms have already been adopted by groundlings. Among thousands of Americans, "browned off" already means fed up. ("Brassed off" means very fed up and "cheesed off" is utterly disgusted.) To crash is to "prang." To take a "dim view" is to look upon skeptically...
...just wants the truth. When he gets the news he fans it out to others-by letters, seditious handbills, etc. With the Nazi death penalty enforced for listeners to U.S. news, OWI wants to reach those men who are prepared to run the risks of disseminating the truth (seep...
...smells like geraniums and is a blistering gas, the blisters appear about 15 minutes after the dark brown liquid has touched the victim. If the blisters are broken immediately, the arsenic will not be so likely to seep through the system, and will not do so much harm." The ordinary gas mask, which may be distributed to all civilians, eliminates the gas with ease, but no ordinary clothing will protect the wearer. Oil cloth or especially treated cloth will keep the gas from the body," Major Johnson said...
...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...