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Word: destroyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study the problem you'll see that in Belgium, as in so many other countries, Moscow would like to destroy us to our foundations. You know their formula: "Divide to master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Leopold III will return, for the Belgians are losing patience with those who would destroy that which unites them, that which makes a Belgium, the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...atomic bomb, but the food crisis that may destroy us." That was the valedictory, delivered in Geneva last week, of Sir John Boyd Orr, preparing to retire as director general of U.N.'s Food & Agriculture Organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Valedictory | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...aged, lecherous, hunchback. At a secret rendevous, he makes a pass at Jenny and she breaks a bottle over his head. The police pick up her husband for murder but Jenny decides to keep mum to both her husband and the police, thinking that her confession would destroy his love. Her failure to confess causes much agony, but the film has a neat solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jenny Lamour | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

...worried radioman thinks that television is "a Frankenstein monster that will destroy its creator." But if the monster's rivals can't lick it, they are determined to join it. The industries that have most to fear are the ones giving it the most support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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