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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Washington, however, informed Chinese knew that no bombers had been promised China. Desperately the Chinese argued: for four years the Japanese had raked Chinese civilians with death and fire; industrial Japan is ripe for the killing; one bomber to China is the equal of ten to Britain and every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: U.S. Moves In | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

The detection of an element by its radioactivity is up to one million times as sensitive as by chemical analysis. The radioactivity can be detected by killing an animal after it has eaten radioelements, then assaying the radioactivity of its various tissues. It can also be detected by placing a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radioactive Flesh | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

The German counter to the invasion did not come at once. Last week the Nazis confined their outward Middle Eastern activity to bombing Alexandria twice, killing 500, making 50,000 flee the city on trucks, bicycles, goat carts. The Axis even went so far as to announce that the Syrian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: The Syrian Show Begins | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Reporter Dolan covered such mayhem & murder affairs as the Hall-Mills Case, the Snyder-Gray killing, the shooting of Arnold Rothstein. To get pictures of Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder, he hired a seaplane, zoomed so close to them as they entered Sing Sing that he almost knocked their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fight Camps | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

On Aug. 21, 1940, the British freighter Anglo Saxon, out of England bound for Buenos Aires, was attacked 500 miles south of the Azores by the German raider Weser, since captured by a Canadian armed merchant cruiser. The raider shelled the ship, killing most of the crew and destroying all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAHAMAS: Sea Story | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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