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Word: contented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo scientists have succeeded in increasing the alcoholic content of apple cider to a point where it is "usable as airplane fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Apples & Octopuses | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...Cried Counselor Mornet: Esteva was the creature of Petain, who will soon be brought to trial in absentia. Esteva did not resist the Germans in Tunisia; instead, he appealed to the Free French to desert, conscripted Tunisians to help the Axis. "I ask death for the man who was content to accept dishonor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Face of Dishonor | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...railroads were racing against time and waste, but from the Panhandle to the Dakotas the worried farmers doubted that the railroads could win. There were just not enough cars to move the mountains of grain before millions of bushels of high-moisture-content corn, now piled in the open, rotted in the spring rains. And by late May a new crop of winter wheat would be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Problem in Logistics | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...alloys, then used thin sheets of steel bonded together, which require much less alloy for hardening than does a single thick plate. The analysis showed the Germans used their small supply of alloy metals again & again, by painstakingly sorting the scrap from their wrecked armor, according to its alloy content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Axis Armor | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...ambition now is to write a serious play. But he would be content, he says, with the epitaph once given to a famous European clown: "A fool has gone away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Young Man with a Slingshot | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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