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Word: compartmentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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On one truck a soldier-hackney handed passengers a five-foot piece of two-by-four. Said he: "Here's the bell-bash on the back of the driver's compartment when you want to get off." They did. On another, the driver yelled an invitation to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rough Riding | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Lev Saltonstall's style as governor is in keeping with the weathered plainness of his Yankee squire's face. He dispensed with the limousine and motorcycle escort his predecessors affected. Saltonstall is driven around in a two-door 1941 Chevrolet. The Governor rides up front, and Chauffeur Al...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Yankee Face | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

But the Russian flood had leaped one barrier after another, leaped them so fast that before any compartment had been fully flooded, the next had already been breached. How different this was from successful retreat was shown by the results:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: 1 ,009 Ukrainian Days | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Barrier Breaching. In Bessarabia last week the air was thick with the aroma of apple blossoms and Marshal Ivan Konev was there to enjoy it. Even more he could enjoy the knowledge that his was the major credit for breaking through one compartment after another of the Ger man defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: 1 ,009 Ukrainian Days | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

The Cairo-bound Taurus Express rocked and clattered through the harsh, moonlit mountains of southern Turkey. In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major. When control officers at the Levantine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Envoy Extraordinary | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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