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Word: whole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole thing was over in 30 seconds. After that only a dark cloud of smoke was visible. Royal Oak had disappeared, while Repulse listed heavily forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...hung out near the gun and got the men coffee. That's all I could think of doing. I heard somebody say 'Here he is' and then came an explosion. Oh, mother! I'll never hear another like that. Our mainmast went down and the whole centre of the bridge and all the steering apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Oh, Mother! | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...haired Donald McNicol was elected captain of the 1943 gridders yesterday afternoon in a meeting of the whole squad after practice had been concluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNICOL CHOSEN AS LEADER OF YARDLING FOOTBALL ELEVEN | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

There is one red-hot poker which can put some real fire and spirit into the whole business. This is the selection of a high-stepping, tastefully exposed drum majorette to head up the Harvard marchers. "I reckon it's mighty strange how a pretty leg can kick you between the eyes," a high political official from Louisiana once remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAISE THE BATON AVERAGE | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

...plot of a musical comedy, but it is nothing short of a criminal offense for the authors of a show, in this case Messrs. Nicholson and Robinson, to deprive a trouper like Bert Wheeler of even the smallest semblance of a comic line. In fact, throughout the whole show there is a singular lack of hilarity...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

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