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Word: shrouds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cooled by the Humboldt Current, the islands are not as hot as might be expected. Mists shroud the tops of the 2,000 volcanic crater cones that splotch the group's 2,800 square miles; on all but the shore the climate is humid. The handful of inhabitants, mostly Ecuadorians and Scandinavians, grow coffee and sugar cane, raise cattle on the craters' slopes. In the '30s, the islands became famed in U.S. Sunday supplements because of a bizarre free-love colony founded by a German dentist, which came to an unhappy end with the violent deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Good-Neighborly Bases | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...Wakefield could no longer be distinguished within her shroud of smoke and steam. But messages beep-beeping from the sparks' cabins aboard the cruiser and the destroyers told the story. "The engines are still okay. Fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain (Coast Guard Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury) thinks it will burn out the superstructure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NAVY: Of Undetermined Origin | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Under the shroud of fog the four men paddled quietly towards shore. The submarine which had brought them turned its nose again to the open sea, vanished into the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission from Berlin | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...tightened its grip last week, even at the Army's expense. After March 1 "no silk may be used in the manufacture of parachutes until the grade and type has been approved by the Defense Supplies Corp." Evidently the Army had been wastefully using it on parachute shroud lines and cords instead of saving it for canopies. If nylon is subjected to similar husbanding, women can at least feel that their sacrifice is necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Parachutes Mean Bare Legs | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...chic Adele, who left him in 1932 to become Lady Cavendish and live in an Irish castle. The second was Ginger Rogers, who joined him in his second picture, Flying Down to Rio, in 1933. Six years later, just as Adele had left him, so Ginger Rogers departed, to shroud her lyric legs in the toga of a dramatic actress. Astaire tried two new partners: proficient, metallic Eleanor Powell and gaminous Paulette Goddard. Neither Hollywood nor the nation was impressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: California Carmen | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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