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Word: impetuses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the shots were made by Russian cameramen accompanying the Soviet troops who pushed the Germans away from Moscow last winter. Their work makes a bitter, revealing, angry document. It shows, where words fail, the enormous physical impetus required to get a military offensive going in the paralyzing cold of the Russian winter. It also shows, by acres of matériel that the retreating Germans left behind, that their withdrawal was by no means strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Under the impetus of the new pledge drive by the War Service Committee the Harvard undergraduate goal has been set at a minimum of $1000 each week. Other colleges such as Yale, with comparable enrollments and student allowances, have consistently topped that sum and are continuing to do so. But even these standards are startlingly modest when balanced against the contributions of the millions of wage-earning "ten percenters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "We Can, We Will"--We Haven't | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Such is Chiang Kai-shek's customary impetus. He united China once, by conquering it. Starting in the late '203 with nothing but a fledgling military academyand an incandescent spirit, he gradually subdued the selfish and the local men, the provincial brigands, the warlords, the fractious cliques, the Communists. In cam paign and persuasion he forced or con verted the Chinese into a nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: The Incident Becomes a Crisis | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...example, the Blue turned down a bid for it from Sal Hepatica, which wanted it as a summer substitute for Eddie Cantor, which would merely have involved the Blue's giving the show up to NBC. But the Chamber Music Soci ty had a new entertainer, new impetus as radio's most deftly impertinent show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Basin Street Blues | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...about one-half of a man's, her pulling strength two-thirds. But she is superior to man in dexterity and patience. Women are peculiarly susceptible to certain chemical poisons; they are also more vulnerable than men to sickness and accidents from overwork. Protective laws got their impetus from overwork in World War I. But it was War I which emancipated them. From 1914 to 1918 the proportion of women workers in war industries more than doubled, from 65 per 1,000 wage earners to 139. Once in, they remained; in the same industries there were still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Woman Behind the Man | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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