Search Details

Word: knit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Muscovites guessed the tight-knit, blond, blue-eyed ex-mechanic scored his latest triumph over Rumania, where in 1941 he began his fighting career. He was then 28 and middle-aged by U.S. or British fighter-pilot standards. Since then he has fought more than 500 air battles, has been shot down thrice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Achfung Pokryshkin | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Stilwell's supplies also flowed up the Bengal-Assam railway, along with the gasoline and parts that still give the tightly knit Allied Air Force control of the air and the power to lay down what the Burma fighters needed on the Allied "dropping grounds" in the jungles. If the railway fell, Joe Stilwell's venture would fail. The Jap had made a neat estimate of the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Confidence on the Arakan Front | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. By Cinemactress Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, cinemaspirant, one time broker; almost two years after their marriage (for each the second), 14 months after its annulment, 13 months after their remarriage, nine months after the birth of their daughter ; in Los Angeles. She charged extreme cruelty, asked for custody of Cheryl Christinia Crane, sought no alimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 17, 1944 | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared out. Germany will face the prospect that both ends of its once well-knit line will come unraveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Four Victories | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...social studies Black Mountain, instead of expecting students to decant social knowledge from the cobwebbed classics, encourages them to moonshine their own product from the process of living together in a closely knit community. Students help the faculty's Board of Fellows run the college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Black Mountain's Tenth | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | Next