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Word: canopus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Corregidor saw only a little of the ghastly end. The last, pitifully small ammunition dump on Bataan went up in smoke and flame; the three ships at the water's edge (including the 6,000-ton sub tender Canopus) were dynamited. Finally, from one of the heights on Bataan, a white flag went up. How many of the 36,000 died fighting, only the Japs knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bataan: Where Heroes Fell: Death of an American Illusion | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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