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Word: asia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the periphery of conquest to protect the Empire's heart. Looking toward such a time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's U.S. political adviser, Owen Lattimore,* last week gave this blunt promise to Japan: "There will be a second front, not only in Europe but also in Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Into the Stolen Empire | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...Siberia's harvested area increased by 2,100,000 acres over last year. In Kazakstan and central Asia land sown to winter grains increased by a half-million acres; in the Black Earth region, by 1,250,000 acres. The ratio of men to women in Russia's fields was about 3-to-100 (prewar average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: As Winter Comes | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

This career sets the pattern for Japan's transformation into a world power. In Tokyo the Fureno dynasty holds power by bribes and terrorism. In China the Furenos profitably combine opium traffic and espionage. Throughout Asia their agents inflame resentment against the white man. As a great banking house, the Furenos finance the importation of Western technology into Japan's army and industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Sons | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...honor with the dishonorable course they think Japan must pursue. Anything goes in Bushido. After the old generations of simple-minded warriors are dead, no one but the long-suffering Japanese women remain to oppose the treachery by which the brandy-bibbing, geisha-gluttonous Fureno circle plots to overwhelm Asia and fight it out with America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Sons | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...this routine announcement. Then Dr. Schmidt leaned his plump, manicured hands flat on the heavy table. "There will be," he said viciously, "no place for such editors in the new Europe. We will make short shift of them. Perhaps they will find their future home in the steppes of Asia, or maybe it would be best simply to send them off into the Great Beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Wir Machen Nicht Mit | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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