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Word: bogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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These details, corroborated by other correspondents did much to explain the bog-down of Russia's would-be Blitzkrieg. What possessed Joe Stalin to hurl such cannon fodder at the well-trained Finns could only be guessed. Perhaps he thought cannon fodder could win. Perhaps he is trying to wear down Finnish resistance with inferior troops, saving his best troops to mop up. In any case, by this week fresh thousands of Russians had been thrown into battle on three fronts, attacking the Finns day & night, in wave after wave, trying by sheer force of numbers to beat down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Soldiers, Arise! | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Form in physical skills is the key to success in sports. Postural habits in study or business may keep you healthy or cause you to bog down" said the director, and it is his aim to produce this form by increasing the range of movement which, in Freshmen, is very limited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News wrote: "The war is a washout-figuratively and actually." Rain had reduced the Cambrai plain to a snipe bog, and "no gun has yet been fired in anger." Wire enclosures were built to hold German prisoners, but stood empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bearskins at Home | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...conversationalist with News Analysts Elmer Davis and H. V. Kaltenborn (see p. 46). Major Lambert, in his single turn at the microphone, told MBS audiences that the Polish strategy would be to withdraw before the Germans to the Vistula and stall until the autumn rains, which were expected to bog down Germany's mechanized army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Casualties, Replacements | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Weather, next to stomachs, is war's most basic consideration.* Six predictably fair weeks of Polish autumn lay ahead for action on the fat Polish plains. Then will come rains which the Poles hope will bog down the German juggernaut on the purposely unpaved roads leading in from the borders. In the mountain passes on the South soon will come General Snow to aid the defenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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