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Word: shellful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foul! In Cambridge, Mass., a would-be policeman flunked his physical when examiners found that he had raised his height to the required 5 ft. 6 in. by plastering his long hair back over half a coconut shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...overruled the commanding general of the 8th Mountain Division, who had told correspondents: "She will not go to Konitsa. She may be queen, but I am king up here." Frederika was the first to cross the shell-blasted bridge to Konitsa after the engineers had repaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Glimpses of a Battlefront | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Orange marks from the smoke shell, which Thalhofer pushed out the door, remained in the snow in the back yard, in addition to remains of the bomb...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Gunman Deters 2 Students In Pursuit of Coop Plunder | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

...uniformed policemen stood outside the Oxford Grill and fire trucks were summoned to put out the smoke shell screen used by the felons. Curious at the speady start of the bandit car on Church Street, one, Patrolman Joseph Gould, took down the license number "for the hell...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Stick-up Cleans Coop | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

...Atomic Energy Commission announced this week that it had picked shell-blasted Eniwetok atoll, just west of Bikini in the Marshall Islands chain, as its Pacific proving ground for atomic weapons (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Testing | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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