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Word: knitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Code. In Seattle, police and U.S. agents tried and tried to decode the notations in an arrested woman's little black book: "K 1, P 2, CO 8, K 5 . . ." finally quizzed her, learned the meaning: "Knit one, purl two, cast on eight, knit five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...calm, sad face of a moonstruck mystic. The look is misleading. A Puritan in his personal life, abstemious, logical in argument, part Indian, part Italian, philosopher, archeologist, scientist, scholar, Lombardo is a man of power. No longer head of C.T.M. , he is still leader of the C.T.A.L., the loosely knit Confederation of Latin American Workers. That fact, last week, was the key to his mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Man with a Mission | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...want to knit for soldiers? Stop it; knit only if the Red Cross says so; wool yarn is precious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind Alleys | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Wishful as this sounded, it might be true unless Russia could destroy the centers before the ground hardened after the melting of the snow. And so Russia turned on its own heat. Guerrillas drove deep into the loosely knit German lines, sold their lives stubbornly and took their toll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Spring is Coming | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...Paramount pressagents put out the story that one of their up-&-coming stock girls, Manhattan Model Blanche Grady, had formed a club: The Knit Wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood to the Wars | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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