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Word: spume (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleek sister moved in through the icy, spume-laced seas to her side. It was a deadly task. Both vessels were rolling wildly and constantly awash, and their hulls were as bare of hand holds as two whale's backs. A rubber boat set out from the Cochino, lost a man in the enormous waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voyage to Hammerfest | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...first-rate group of 19th-and 20th-century U.S. pictures, the collection included : Winslow Homer's Sunflower Pickaninny, Sargent's portrait of Joe Jefferson as Rip van Winkle, Whistler's Red Rosalie of Lyme Regis, George Luks's Plaza Cabbie, George Bellows' Sea Spume, canvases by John Sloane, Marsden Hartley, John Marin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Cure | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...captures a U-boat supply ship and learns a Nazi trick of mining torpedoes with delayed-action detonators. Disguised as Nazis, the Sybil Gray crew replenishes three Nazi submarines with these mined torpedoes. A few seconds after each U-boat submerges, it is blown to smithereens. As the victims spume skyward the U.S. crew cheers as merrily as if Dick Rover had just pasted another one into the bleachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Naval Reserve. He was ordered to cut short the cruise, cancel the stop at Port-au-Prince, cut the stop at Havana from 48 hours to one (presumably to let former King Carol of Rumania and Playmate Lupescu disembark), put in at Newport News, Va. for refitting. The spume under America's forefoot widened and whitened as she picked up her feet and shook herself out of her cruise pace. On radio and telephone Giles Stedman and U.S. Lines got the Navy to agree to let him drop his 250 passengers at New York, promised to have his beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Requisition | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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