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Word: booting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President appointed a military commission to try the saboteurs-and try them quickly. Headed by hard-bitten Major General Frank R. McCoy, a member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, the commission includes six other boot-tough generals. Prosecutors will be Attorney General Francis Biddle and the Army's Judge Advocate General Major General Myron C. Cramer. Two colonels will act as defense counsel. The commission will try the eight in secret, report immediately to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enemy Within | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...master of Germany, the late Hangman Reinhard Heydrich rushed to see his Führer on a matter of desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Into the Funnel | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Three hours of your time next Monday night will perform an invaluable service for the U. S. Army Air Corps. The evening will be painless, cost no money, entail no obligation, and will probably be interesting to boot. The occasion is the new mental examination which the Army Air Corps has just devised, and which will be given its first tryout at Harvard. Four hundred undergraduates are needed to act as guinea pigs, and while many Freshmen have already volunteered, the services of at least 150 upperclassmen are urgently needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wanted: 400 Guinea Pigs | 7/8/1942 | See Source »

...recently graduated from the University of Texas with an all-A rating and a PBK key to boot. Six feet two and 200 pounds make Ettlinger no anemic Lord Fauntleroy, but although he is interested in organic chemistry he has yet found no attractions in the opposite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texan 16-year old Genius to Enroll in Business School | 6/25/1942 | See Source »

...Francis Boot Prize of $100 for the best composition in concerted vocal music, was won by Adrian J. P. La Rue, second-year graduate student, of Ann Arbor, Mich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES PRIZE AWARDS | 6/25/1942 | See Source »

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