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Word: ails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans read the names of the boys who made the first big U.S. air raid on Europe, the bombing of Rouen. One of them, Lieut. Thomas Borders, 25, of Birmingham, had played tackle on Alabama's 1938 Rose Bowl team. The list sounded like the roster of an Ail-American eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Names & Faces | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...factor's office. "Why don't you get yourself an automobile?" the factor said. "Well, I never thought about one," said Old Man Town. "Whut they wuth?" "We've got a nice little job here for five thousand that ought to get you over your place ail right," said the salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cotton King | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, Secretary since 1930 of the Ail-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, is a big man in his home country, a great man for telling Soviet workmen a thing or two. Sole survivor of the Central Council purge of 1937, he has since expounded the line at home that the more Russia becomes socialized the more energy workers should spend on cultural and political activities, the less agitation on hours and wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Russian Invasion | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...picture (from a story by Paul Gallico) is a credit to all concerned- especially to Director Thorpe and Producer Jack Chertok, Scenarist Allen Rivkin, pretty Mother Hunt, and Mechanic Young, who plays his Ail-American role with likable, natural, easygoing familiarity. Not a high-powered movie, it is a first-rate die for the new propaganda models which Hollywood is readying for mass production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 16, 1942 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...Sprechstimme) to the fevered sounds of eight strings and woodwinds (in various combinations). Modernist Schönberg's jittery measures, more talked about than listened to (Pierrot has had only two U.S. performances), here get their first recording, a fine example of what, 30 years ago, began to ail 20th-century music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

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