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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such war raged across 23,000 square miles of Europe. The explosion of men's nerves and brains became as commonplace as death and wounds. Casualties were impossible to assess in the flowing confusion. Four million men were engaged in the business of slaughter, their killing power multiplied by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Greatest Battle | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Despite the weather, the party was a huge success. The publicity paradise reached seventh heaven at Ak-Sar-Ben's coliseum, where 8,000 funsters unanimously nominated Gracie for President. Making her acceptance speech, Candidate Allen squirmed uncomfortably, kept tugging at her hips, finally blurted: "My girdle is killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: High Jinks in Omaha | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Grey-haired Martin D. Wilson, a conductor on the Burlington, off duty, was motoring home alone with two geese, two turkeys, two hams last December. At a Richland, Neb. grade crossing he was surprised by a Union Pacific express. Pulling diagonally across the tracks, Conductor Wilson caught his left front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Union Pacific Bites Dog | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Lethal Silver. It has long been known that silver is a deadly killer of one-celled organisms, and silver has been widely used as a germicide. It used to be thought, how ever, that from 100,000 to 100,000,000 silver atoms were needed to kill a cell. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Discoveries Reported | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

On her way to a student conference at Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.), Kathryn Lewis, daughter of C. I. O. Leader John L. Lewis, missed her train in Manhattan. Result: she was not aboard the Lake Shore Limited when it was wrecked at Little Falls, N. Y., killing 30 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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