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...Near Kharkov, 400 miles to the north, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's tight teams of planes, tanks, guns and men punched a dent, then tried to hack a great pocket in Marshal Semion Timoshenko's defenses. Eventually, if the Nazi plan worked, the pocket would become an ever-enlarging fissure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Summer Has Come | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...Then I noticed what appeared to be red flares passing overhead and turned to Captain Robert Bruskin . . . to ask what they were. 'Tracer shells,' he snapped. . . . After daylight we found fragments and saw where one had made a four-to six-inch dent in a [oil] tank before ricocheting off. . . . We found a German torpedo lying on the shore. It was a great big fellow, perhaps 18 ft. long, with a sharp nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Shells at Aruba | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Reduction of living costs by doubling up on House rooms and dispensing with the daily maid service would put a dent in the high cost of a Harvard education, but not enough of a dent. The other major phase of living, the cost of meals, must also be reduced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Forward IV | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

...That's Mosely hogwash," Huey interposed. "He can't Dent our forward wall. And he can't hold a Kiendi to ours. He goes Furso much as ten yards at a crack. Then just to Vary the attack there are Dietrich plays that our coach has especially for this occasion. We intend to Kemp on the Eli goal line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Huey Flings 'Em | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

More serious is the prospect of 1942 traffic, for which the roads need at least 150,000 new cars. Last week carbuilders (for lack of steel) still operated at around 35% of capacity, making no dent on their 90,000-car backlog. In September, the roads got 9,000 fewer new cars than they had figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over Hummock & Down Ditch | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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