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Word: whitecaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the islands are so small that they seem no bigger than a whitecap from a few miles' distance. The way a Navy plane's navigator can hit a tiny speck in the vastest of oceans is amazing. The navigators seldom miss, and no navigator misses but once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT HOME & ABROAD: Life on the Atolls | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Here & there in the long groundswell of words a whitecap showed. On the first day of general debate a Vermont Republican, Warren Robinson Austin of Burlington, left little for his fellow interventionists to say, much for the isolationists to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Togas Clad | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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