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Word: compartmentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The night of June 16 John secreted Bigart in a compartment, marked "reserved for invalids," of a train bound" for Macedonia. Next afternoon, at stocky, he was transferred to a battered UNRRA truck, and hidden under a tarpaulin. For the next eleven days, after dodging Yugoslav border patrols, he traveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mission to Markos | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Manhood Regained. Instead of smelling out his mates and attacking them with bites, as Mr. Cain's earlier heroes did, Jack never once smells a girl; he responds to visual appeal. It is, in fact, at the point that he does not respond to it-when he has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocking Rover Boy | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

On a gold-draped stage in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, the shiny new Ford makes its bow this week. It is a sleek, square-cut car only 5 ft. 3 in. high and completely redesigned from grill to luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Low, Wide & Hard to Get | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Recently on the Red Arrow, night train from Leningrad to Moscow, Father Laberge was assigned a bed in a four-berth compartment with three women. Such scrambled bookings are not unusual on Russian trains, but these women were no ordinary travelers. They were party members on their way to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: On the Red Arrow | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

By electronic trickery he can make the controls and instruments in the cockpit behave as if a fuel line had clogged, or as if a deadly crust of ice were forming on the wings and tail surfaces. He can knock out the radio or devil it with static. He can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Simulated Disaster | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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