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Word: mouths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the mouth of the Rio de la Plata where it spews its yellow silt, the Ajax and Achilles waited exultantly for the deadline. Reinforcements came up fast. The much-disputed aircraft carrier Ark Royal and the battle cruiser Renown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...hours and to spare before the deadline, Spee weighed. Slowly she started moving for the breakwater mouth. The evening was clear-sun at the set, half moon already up, lazy little clouds. The supply ship Tacoma, with all Spee's married men aboard, picked up after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

What would she do? To try to run that Allied gantlet would be suicide. Spee had had time to make herself seaworthy, but not battleworthy. A rumor got around that Captain Langsdorff would slip her across the Plata's mouth to Buenos Aires, there perhaps to intern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Five days later the Admiralty reported that the submarine Ursula had sneaked into the mouth of the Elbe, past six German destroyers, and sunk a 6,000-ton cruiser. Since such a ship would normally carry 571 men, this feat almost made up for the loss of Royal Oak, certainly put Britain far ahead in the naval score for the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bulls and Beats | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Professorial, omni-opinionated Walter Boughton Pitkin, author, at 54, of Life Begins at Forty (1932), was a "guest expert" on Canada Dry's Information Please program, sat clam-mum throughout the entire half-hour quiz. Afterwards, he explained apologetically why he had not opened his mouth: he is hard of hearing, heard not a single question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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