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Word: inners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wagging their tails of infantry behind them. Some Aussies crept ahead under cross-curtain of tank and machine-gun fire to cut barbed-wire entanglements. Then the full power of attack brushed past pillboxes, deployed back and crushed them from behind. That accounted for the outer semicircle. For the inner, the process was the same. By noon both had been broken. By sunset the attackers had pushed eight miles to the heights looking down on Tobruch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: On to Derna | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...assigned to Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Claims: delivery, per pound of engine weight, of more than double the power of previous similar Diesels; cheap construction and operation. Two opposed pistons move synchronously together and apart in the cylinder. When closest together, they form between their inner heads a combustion chamber. Fuel is injected here and ignited by heat of compression (as in all Diesels), driving the pistons apart. Now two other combustion chambers are formed between the pistons' outer heads and the cylinder heads. Fuel is injected there, driving the pistons together again. Thus every stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

CAIRO-Britain's empire army, unleashing a mighty "death blow" against the Italian base of Tobruk and its 20,000 to 30,000 entrapped defenders, has smashed more than five miles through the inner defenses of the Libyan strong-hold since dawn, it was stated officially tonight...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

...Johnson's house in Gough Square was roofless and gutted, but his extra-size chair and first edition of his dictionary had been rescued. Old Bailey, scene of famous and infamous trials, was partially burned; the Temple, already battered by a dozen bombs, was set aflame; and the Inner Temple, sanctum of British law, had five of its buildings burning at once. Its great Gothic library was reduced to rubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: After the Fire | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...hoodlum in America will start buying colored shirts and parading with his local fascist party? When it will be impossible to critize fascism, lest it disturb relations with our good friends and customers beyond the seas. Hitler won't have to invade America until it is so torn be inner conflict that the German army could cross the ocean in canoes. It is time to end these theories of invasion, so easily refuted by calculations of gross tonnage. When Hitler gets ready to invade the United States will have a government unwilling and unable to resist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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