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Word: inners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard last week, "The enemy's position is not nearly so bad as we would like to believe, for in the Japanese inner citadel they retain great concentrated strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: From Yap to Manila | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Married and divorced from 1) a Springfield, Mass. barber named Frank White ("God, he smelled nice!"), 2) Nicky Arnstein, 3) Billy Rose, Fanny is now a Hollywood homebody, recently affected by inner-ear trouble which bothers her equilibrium. Her principal hobby is painting-her home swarms with relatives, in-laws, friends, all painting away like mad. Of her own works, Fanny complains: "They always come out primitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Decision in Oshkosh | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...point was to get the junk off what furniture wasn't smashed and patch the roof quick against rain. . . . The blast had pushed the back and front walls some eight inches from the sidewalks so we couldn't risk ladders. We had to climb the inner sidewall and snake a tarpaulin through, weight it and throw it over the front and back walls since you couldn't stand on them. And you never knew when the floors would go. Yes it was a bit sticky, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: The Blitz and One Man | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...Democratic district which produced Al Smith. Teddy Roosevelt was his boyhood hero. He put himself through Fordham's law school after army service in World War I and then worked his way steadily upward in New York Republican politics to the job of secretary of state and the inner circle of young men around the fast rising Tom Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Dewey's Choice | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...that stretch had crossed the Salween River and last week were fighting for the road town of Tengyueh. With crude ladders they scaled the ancient walls built in Marco Polo's day, turned modern flamethrowers on the Japanese defenders. At week's end they had occupied the inner defenses. Between Tengyueh and Myitkyina there were no Japs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Stars for Stilwell | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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