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Word: flatted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Survivors of the baby flat-top Liscome Bay, torpedoed offshore during the Gil berts invasion, numbered 268. This fact indicated that almost as many men went down with the ship as died on Tarawa; yet no one got particularly excited about the Liscome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Postscript on Tarawa | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Qualified. Cordell Hull last week endorsed General Dwight D. Eisenhower's flat prediction of European victory in 1944. But by the time the Secretary added his characteristic, cautious circumlocutions, the forecast was refined toward nothingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crystal Ball | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Behind Zhitomir he had been hoarding vast masses of tanks. When Vatutin's mobile columns outraced their artillery and infantry support, Manstein struck. With more than 1,600 tanks in pursuit, the Russians abandoned Zhitomir, fled across the flat, muddy terrain. Kiev itself was in peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA,BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Last Stand | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Most policemen have flat feet, most jockeys small ones. Ted Atkinson's are size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leading Man | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...year when U.S. flat racing soared to a betting record of 710 million inflated dollars, hard-working Theodore Frederic Atkinson had cleaned up, too. He had ridden 200 winners in 1943, had been hailed at a "Ted Atkinson Day" at Rockingham, and was the all around standout rider of New York tracks' fall meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leading Man | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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