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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...25th anniversary. Britain's great Air Force, up from nothing since World War I (see p. 98), was strong enough in its maturity to repay Germany in kind for London and Coventry. How strong would it have to be-could any air force ever be strong enough-to knock Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Great Experiment | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Tank's Reversal. The necessities and lessons of war had set men to work on mobile guns which would knock out tanks. By last week many military observers believed that the anti-tank men had succeeded. The stock of the tank had dropped precipitously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: Decline of the Tank | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...After watching the Eighth Army knock out 52 German tanks in twelve hours TIME Correspondent Jack Belden wrote: "Tanks! How futile they appear face to face with these ambush-emplaced guns. Like papier máché boxes they are strewn across the Médinine plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: Decline of the Tank | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...furloughs and a Land Army of unskilled women and children can not hope to replace the experienced farmers who have compared their daily average wage of $3 with the $6 pay check of inexperienced shipbuilding labor, and have answered Henry Kaiser's full-page advertisement. Yet Davis can only knock at WMC's doors, suggesting and hoping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farms and Arms | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Slender, dark-haired Brooks Emeny's restrained manner conceals a burning intensity of purpose. Married to the former Winifred Rockefeller (granddaughter of William Rockefeller, brother of John D.), he lives unostentatiously in swankily suburban Shaker Heights, firmly believes that 40 councils like Cleveland's could knock isolationism into a cocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Town Hall | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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