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Word: brags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Information from inside Germany is nothing to brag about, but it is better than U.S.-British information from inside the U.S.S.R. The figures given here are as of early June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Time Is Now | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Airmen still pounding at the Jap task force knew why. The Jap was confused, in disorder, slowing up by the time Tokyo aired its first brag. By the time the real returns began to come in, the task force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: IN THE CORAL SEA | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...other fire-control equipment for the Germans. At Levallois-Perret and La Courneuve, French armorers are making 25-and 47-mm. guns. The big Schneider plant at Le Creusot makes machine-gun barrels, jackets, breech blocks and screws. Before the surprise raid on Renault, the Germans used to brag that 80% of French production was helping the Axis war effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Open Season | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Realistic measures of defense called for elimination of telecommunications with the Axis countries, closer passport inspection, control of Axis-owned businesses (on which Argentina and Chile submitted a reservation); and stricter surveillance of local Nazi groups, which openly brag of loyalty to the Fatherland even though a German colonist "wears a sombrero and spurs as wide as wagon wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Flying Back From Rio | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...week's end the Blues had plenty to brag about. On the first day of the maneuver they had knocked out 200 tanks, had done nearly as well every day thereafter. (Under maneuver rules, tanks destroyed on any day came to life next morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Battle of the Carolinas | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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