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Word: umpteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...umpteenth time made passes at Malta (out of which it has signally failed to drive the Royal Navy and the R.A.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Simmering | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...umpteenth time made passes at Malta (out of which it has signally

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Propaganda, 1918 Style | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...spine juggling, nudist colonies. Actually, physiotherapy is an ancient and honorable art which uses such natural methods as heat, massage and exercise to invigorate the body, relieve pain. Though most of its practitioners are laymen, physiotherapy is a special pet of the American Medical Association. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the Journal of the A. M. A. begged doctors to wrest this lucrative and valuable specialty from the hands of the quacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiotherapy | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...featured is "Parole Fixer," in which Eddie Hoover's G-Men go gang-busting for the umpteenth time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/23/1940 | See Source »

Last week a hardy old chestnut, still to be cracked, was picked over for the umpteenth time. Picker was Dr. Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis, head of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan. "I'm not interested in normal people," said bluff Dr. Lewis to a group of normal laymen. All great works in the world, said he, are the doings of neurotics, and if a psychiatrist wants to do his bit for civi lization, he should remember that men of talent must stay neurotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Neurotic Chestnut | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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