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Word: executioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Navy's program is going fairly well because it got started in peacetime, but naval constructors now see harder days ahead. Competing for limited U.S. shipways are 661 seagoing commercial vessels. The machine-tool bottleneck caused by aircraft and ordnance speed-up is beginning to tighten on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparedness 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Unlike the Ludendorff-Haig-Pershing-Joffre practice of letting brass hats with the aid of technicians work things out at desks far behind the lines and then turn execution over to subordinates, the Wavell usage is to train civil-servant-like underlings to do the paper work, while the generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATER: The Other Way in Libya | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Joe Marsala's brother Marty who plays a lot of trumpet, will be featured at the Beachcomber in Providence on Sunday. If you remember his work of the old Hiekery House days, you'll want to go and hear him... little Holiday's recent coupling of...

Author: By Charies Miller, | Title: SWING | 4/18/1941 | See Source »

The trouble with the world from the point of view of the churchmen is that we have neglected the true end of man, a two-fold concept based on the sacredness of the human personality and the possibility of fulfillment rather than frustration of human nature through labor. In order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberal Liturgy | 3/11/1941 | See Source »

"The average Main Street American is convinced of being the best type of man in the world, of living in the best country in the world, of being possessed of the best political and social constitutions in the world, with the best newspapers, the best universities, the best ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Best in the World | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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