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Word: spouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every September such pleas for Disarmament have been heard in Geneva from the minor nations, from Sweden, Norway, Holland, Bulgaria. But not in many a year has a Great Power galvanized the League Assembly with such demands as Jack-in-the-Pulpit proceeded to spout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: I Shall not admit . . . War | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising in clouds from where its tail lashed the sea. Yet its writhing edges were clean-cut as a broad band of black ribbon. ... It was exactly seven minutes from the time the spout first formed until it faded into the black depths of the moving squall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Water Twister | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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