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Word: digged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minute second-guesser, the Infantry's chief sat down one day in mid-1939, pondered French and German infantry texts, began to pencil a revision of the U. S. foot soldiers' bible. Editor Lynch concurred with German theories of fluid movement, frowned on French notions of static, dig-in defense. Last June, dispatches from Paris indicated that he had been dead right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Handbook to War | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., who put up a total of $1,200,000, the big dig in Athens laid bare the site of the Agora (ancient market place) lying at the foot of the Acropolis and the Areopagus. To get at this, the diggers had to tear down 365 houses in modern Athens. Some 250,000 tons of earth were removed from 25 acres. In Philadelphia last week, Dr. Shear gave the American Philosophical Society a summary of the finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Dig | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...degrees and to a section of Rotterdam in one short blast, the Germans now did to Coventry. In the morning, what had been a thriving city was a smoldering pile of rubble where dazed, stunned survivors wandered aimlessly, and rescue parties from other cities scrabbled in the ruins to dig out hundreds buried dead and alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AIR,BALKAN THEATRE: Try for a Knockout | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...result, the Crimson may be forced to dig deep into its bag of aerial tricks. Pass offense has come in for quite a bit of attention all week long, with Charley Spreyer and Don McNicol doing most of the having...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WET WEATHER HITS HARLOW, MCLAUGHRY | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...just ahead was the "squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Story of a Train | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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