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Word: bags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teams shall ever sit down. Timeouts mean nothing to those Sabrinas; they wait on their feet, anxious for the next play. They didn't have to open up very much last Saturday against Hobart, and Harvard can expect the Lord Jeff quarterbacks to dig down deep into their bag of tricks...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...neutral observers -was that the Germans might run out of competent pilots. By this week the R. A. F. had claimed roughly 5,000 pilots. Since the war's beginning, said the British, they had knocked down 2,158 Nazi ships, the biggest single day's bag being last Sunday, when 185 out of the 600 that came over were destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Softer, Softer, Softer | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...pioneer was 67-year-old, liberal Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, longtime contributor to the Manchester Guardian in England, The New Republic here. His plea, From England to America, A Message, is an amplification of a New Republic article of June 17. In making it, he let out of the bag one of the biggest and blackest cats that shiftier interventionists have tried to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Appeal for Aid | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...live perpetually under the threat of German air power, that power must be destroyed at its base: Germany must be invaded and conquered. This job the British Empire is no longer strong or rich enough to do. At this point the cat pops out of the bag. Pleader Brailsford declares that only the U. S. can reconquer Nazified Europe-and that means another U. S. expeditionary force. Or perhaps it means that Liberal Brailsford is too logical to make a good prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Appeal for Aid | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...favorite subject; 36 pictures of him made up a "Hitler Corner." Sylvia Asprey, 12, showed Hitler on a clothesline, captioned "Save To Bring Him Down a Peg" (see cut). James Morris, 13, made a good caricature of the Reichsführer being hit on the head by a bag labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with the slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Children's War | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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