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Word: shouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottom of the lake, with the gunwales still above water and all passengers high and dry. The lifeboat, however, which has come out to rescue them is having a hard time with leaks and goes under just as it reaches the side of the steamer. The passengers shout and cheer as the lifeboat crew are saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...secret, with 10,000 soldiers writing home every week. Smart Japanese know it is better to have the fact heroically stated by a soldier who is doing his bit, especially when he also reports his comrades begging their officers to forgive them for getting wounded, dying with a shout of "May our Emperor live a thousand years!" They may do these things better in Moscow and Berlin, but Japan is catching up with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wartime Diet | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Hitler, Goebbels and Alfred Rosenberg (Naziland's cultural Fuhrer) have long looked for a literary renaissance in Germany. They shout their complete confidence that one is on the way. Nazi Cultural Pundit Wilfred Bade declares: "The new Germany must have authors; but we need not be afraid that they will not appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood-thinking | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Cotton is like a sinking ship. When a ship at sea is sinking, you do not wait to work out navigation problems and try to devise a long-range program. You just shout, 'Man the lifeboats!' Now we are trying to man the lifeboats for cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Man the Lifeboats! | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Lewes, Del., Birdy, a parrot, died. When President Grover Cleveland first took office, Birdy was taught to shout: "Hurrah for Cleveland!" For 54 years Birdy cheered for Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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