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Word: aimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present aim of the War Department is an army of three and a half million men-so said Secretary Stimson. Estimates of ultimate aims are astronomical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Draft Everybody? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...greatest success of the week, like the greatest successes of the war, belonged to wily Marshal Semion Timoshenko. He sent his men on an oblique, ten-day, 65-mile plunge into the Donets Basin. His aim was to cut direct communications between the great center of Kharkov and the south. This he did at Lozovaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Lateral Passes | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Farther south, the Russians pulled another sneak near the Sea of Azov, advancing 115 miles beyond German-held Taganrog. Here their ultimate aim was to choke oft' German communications into the vital Crimea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Lateral Passes | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

What is a submarine menace? It is certainly not the scatter-aim, hope-to-hit show that Jap subs have put on off the Pacific Northwest. It is, in 1942, a grim thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: What is a Menace? | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...shaved head to the bottom of his splay-toed feet he is hard. His buttocks are big with marching. His arms are strong, and he can dig himself into a shallow trench quickly and neatly. His eyes are generally good, and there is no physical reason why his aim should not be clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Japanese | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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