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Word: gaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still getting through. Recently the Germans sent the Luftwaffe's Field Marshal Albert Kesselring-who blueprinted the razings of Coventry and Warsaw-to Sicily, already bristling with German airpower. Kesselring had a blueprint ready for Malta, too; he cocked his fist and let fly across the short gap of blue water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tough Sponge | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...heredity, bad nutrition, lack of care or accident that is the reason many children's teeth gap widely or fail to connect when they close their jaws. This condition is called malocclusion; it is the orthodontists' favorite word and their chief problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Teeth Straighteners | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...allowances is to go for planes and tanks and battleships, rather than for food, clothing, and movies, there must be some way for the government to take up that money. Taxes play their part, and it will be an increasingly important part, but they are not enough. Unless the gap can be filled with voluntary borrowing, either compulsory loans will have to be initiated, or a vicious inflationary spiral will set in, with the government simply outbidding private consumers by printing more greenbacks. We have seen the disastrous effects of inflation too often in other countries to risk such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bitter Medicine | 3/25/1942 | See Source »

...margin of 78 votes separated Alcorn from his nearest competitor, Keene, but between the second and 10 place men was a gap of only 35 tallies. The top man hails from Pontiac, Michigan and Weld Hall, and is one of the two members of the Union Committee named to the new board. Alcorn was in charge of the recent Freshman fete, the Frolics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alcorn Paces Ten Men Elected to Freshman Committees | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

MOSCOW--Soviet troops have smashed one of the strongest German points in the Donets Basin, tearing open a huge gap in the battle line, and another on the north front just south of Staraya Russa, where the 16th German Army of more than 100,000 men lines in a death trap, front dispatches said, today...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 3/18/1942 | See Source »

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