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Grand Slam, Declared. In Lair, Ky., the State Highway Department condemned a 200-foot bridge; 30 minutes later it collapsed into the South Licking River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

None of the audience saw the bird when it left the stage of the Colonial, so that several Poonmen who rushed up several minutes later were unable to trace their pet. Baffled, they returned to their lair to await further developments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poonsters Post Reward for Vanished Ibis as Harlow Refutes Heron Fake After Night of Magic, Mystery | 5/4/1946 | See Source »

Always willing to try something new, I purchased one of the above-mentioned tools and, with a light heart, set out to show the local clamdiggers how we moderns extract the lowly mollusc from his lair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1945 | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...battleship, heavy cruisers and destroyers poured shells into the 2½-by-5-mile island's airfields, gun emplacements and docks. Three enemy ships were destroyed. Earlier the same day, B-29s and B-24s had dumped almost 200 tons of bombs on the nuisance raiders' lair. The little island was getting a lot of attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Closer To The Goal | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

Premier Joseph Stalin laid out the Red Army's objectives: "Now the last, final mission remains for the Red Army, namely to complete, together with the armies of our Allies, the task of defeating the German fascist armies, finishing off the fascist beast in his own lair and raising over Berlin the banner of victory. There is ground to reckon on this task being fulfilled by the Red Army in the near future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (East): Prelude | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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