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Word: assists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 48 seconds of play Orrin Wood pushed the first score across. John Crocker was credited with the assist. Less than four minutes later, Crocker made an unassisted goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Icemen Defeat Framingham High, 3-0 | 12/11/1942 | See Source »

...ship's captain had appointed a special steward to assist the British Prime Minister, who, at the time of the irregularity, was shaving before a small mirror in the captain's cabin. The steward was embarrassed when he could find no towel in the cabin or anywhere on the vessel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Churchill Used British Navy Flag for Wash Cloth | 12/3/1942 | See Source »

Your reasons for this are important enough to recapitulate: 1) cut off Rommel's forces in their rear; 2) bar the Germans' way to complete conquest of North Africa; 3) restore Allied control of the western Mediterranean; 4) assist a thrust into Germany's southern Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...border. In three columns the united armies marched over the border at dawn Nov. 14 and began to make their way over the sizable mountains that divide Tunis from Algeria. Ahead of them, Allied paratroops, which left Britain only four days before, floated out of the sky to assist the French troops already fighting in attempts to capture or neutralize the major Tunisian air bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Carthage Again | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...basis of extensive war-plant research, especially in aircraft factories, Du Pont also recommends soft light-reflecting colors for factory floors so that light will "bounce up" and assist in working on the under surfaces of such jobs as aircraft wings. By suitable changes in the colors of machines, floors, walls and ceilings, increases of as much as 100% in shop illumination have been achieved without increasing the candle power of the illuminants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light from Paint | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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