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Word: apartment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explosion ripped the room apart and blew a watchman off his seat in a far end of the building. The story rated a tiny box on the front page of the New York Times, which attributed it vaguely to "gasses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Muenter, Once German Teacher Here, Killed Wife, Shot Morgan, Sabotaged in World War 1 | 2/14/1942 | See Source »

...might be argued that if we get rid of the superior minds in criticism, then there is no chance for an improvement of the admittedly poor standards of the motion picture industry. But that isn't so. A critic who is so far above and apart from his audience that he doesn't think in the same terms isn't going to accomplish anything at all in improving the quality of what they're getting...

Author: By Joel M. Kane, | Title: COLLECTIONS & CRITIQUES | 2/12/1942 | See Source »

...final period the Crimson fell completely apart. Moseley scored twice to put his team ahead 5 to 4, and then made bad matters worse by assisting on the final tally of the game...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Six Loses Early 3-1 Lead, Bows To St. Nicks Team 6-4 at Rye | 2/12/1942 | See Source »

...skull wounds at Pearl Harbor were made by fragments of steel varying in size from pieces smaller than a dime to large, jagged chunks bigger and thicker than a silver dollar. Often the smaller missiles left only a scratch on the forehead, but passed right into the brain, tearing apart a considerable amount of tissue. Those men whose heads were shattered died in a few minutes. But others, whose skulls were quite intact, were good risks for operation, no matter how badly their brains were damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain Wounds | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...team held its own in the cross country with Ferner in ninth place and others following closely, but fell apart completely in the jumping, thereby reducing its combined score. The slalom also failed to produce any spectacular Crimson showings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Skiers Take Fifth Place in Hanover Contests | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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