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Word: ashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he took over the settlement, Baranov was left without a sailing ship. He built his own. He mixed native moss with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seward's Icebox | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...duper advertising campaign to sell 85-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain to every Frenchman. Two hundred experts set up shop in the government hotel in Vichy. Men of art and literature went to work. The Marshal's profile, slogans and symbols appeared on stamps, china, ash trays, badges, hatbands, blotters, coins, bijoux and shaving mugs. A francisc, the Marshal's Frankish emblem, adorned all official documents. The Marshal's colors and cheerful slogans about healthy children appeared on milk bottles. Frenchmen wryly remembered World War I, when the Kaiser's picture had adorned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anesthesia in France | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...hang around the place, chew the fat of the post, get a copy of True Romances, watch officer's and noncoms' wives come in for meat and groceries, make restrained horseplay with other fellows. There he can buy cigarets, souvenir ash trays, candy, razor blades, gasoline, Sunday uniforms-more than 6,000 items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Big Business | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...came over and into my bed and leaned her ash-blonde head on my new framboise-colored $12.50 Saks Fifth Avenue pajamas, and then in the cadences of Leslie Howard, with her eyes on my lips, in three distinct shadings, soft, softer, and the last words in an almost inaudible whispered tone, she said, 'I love you, I love you, I will always love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burglars & Bougainvillea | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

These are the same five elements which play the important role of furnace men in the sun and most other stars. In the well-established carbon cycle, originally proposed by Dr. Hans Bethe of Cornell University, hydrogen is the fuel and helium the ash of stars, while carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen are the elements which keep the process going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAR GAZERS CLAIM NEW DISCOVERY | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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