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Word: warmers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present icecap, most geologists believe, is comparatively new. Millions of years ago, they think, Antarctica was warmer, even tropical. A seam of coal 180 miles from the South Pole proves that the continent was once covered with vigorous vegetation. There may be oilfields too, and mineral deposits, including portentous uranium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mysteries of Antarctica | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...natch, I mean after all,' said miss Nastalthia Smythe-Heartherstone, Radcliffe '44, "these women should say what they really want. I mean, all seriousness aside, all I want is...but no, you guess...But no, silly boy...Nopesy, but you're getting warmer, but def...But no, now you've colled off again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Girls Beg Romantic Yuletide Gift | 12/17/1946 | See Source »

...rose as much as 1½ points in over-the-counter trading. But the fact that husky G.M. withstood the plunge was no convincer to less virile companies. In the last month, 13 companies which also needed cash had dropped plans to issue common stock. Until the water got warmer, it looked as if the cheap way to raise cash, by common stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: G. M. Gets the Cash | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Homer Raymond Jones, 53, victor in Washington's First District, where voters decided that any Republican was better than Communist-line Hugh De Lacey. A kindly, stolid, small-time political seat-warmer, Jones's campaign handouts made the point: "Jones was a clean baseball player for Bremerton, hit a home run in his last game for his wife, Delia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Faces in the House | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...office, the debate about Traubel and Flagstad is irrelevant: Wagner continues to sell out. There are still some who prefer Flagstad's glacial perfection to Traubel's warmer but more uneven performances. Traubel's singing, being more emotional, generally improves as the evening goes on; she is at her best in the great third act of Tristan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Happy Heroine | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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