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Word: bothers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago a Massachusetts jewel cutter asked Army Ordnance officers if they were preparing a sure source of synthetic jewels for military instruments. He was told that the matter was too small to bother about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jewels for Battleships | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...East had arrived but the West was too busy to bother. The twain did not meet until this week, when some of the mission were finally allowed to sit in on a session of the United Nations High Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: The Incident Becomes a Crisis | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...main reason that the Sea Otter became an "affair." For more than a week, a lengthy press release on the subject had lain unreleased on the desk of glum Mr. Knox. Said Mr. Powell ruefully: "I thought this Sea Otter thing was too small and unimportant to bother about after we had made our decision." The decision: thumbs down. Some of the reasons, from official files...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Little Stinker | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Last week's slim audience didn't bother Eddie Condon. Nor did it discourage his backer, bespectacled Ernest Anderson, onetime adman and CBS executive. For next season he has arranged eleven biweekly Town Hall jazz concerts for Eddie Condon, with more possibly to come, at the same unseasonal (for jazz) hour as last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz at 5:30 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Replied Guerrillissimo Arnold: "That spy and sniper business doesn't bother us. We've taken an oath. . . . We'd rather die [fighting] than have a bayonet run through us like they got in Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Arms | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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