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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's gambit had two essentials: 1) strike at the heart of the main U.S. force and split it from the Allied forces to the East; 2) lay the groundwork for the destruction of the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Fort by Fort, Port by Port | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Skippers of the dumpy mail boats which ply between Fishguard, Wales and Rosslare, Eire are very well acquainted with Tuskar Rock, some seven miles off the latter port. Tuskar means peat spade, but in the old days Tuskar Rock dug only graves in the water. Now Tuskar Light is a 110-foot beacon visible all the way from Wales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Mine Attacks Lighthouse | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...several strikingly good dance numbers the new Astaire-Hayworth dance duo tops his last few combinations and equals the old Astaire-Rogers terpsichorean team. Astaire still can't sing and can't act, but the picture wisely requires a modicum of the former and a minimum of the latter. A simple story of how drafted stage star Astaire wins colonel's lady Hayworth, the plot is covered in a few mediocre but short stretches between the excellent musical numbers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Graduation, academic difficulties and injuries have deeply dented the candidate showing and Chief Boston has nothing but dark foreboding for the campaign's outcome. Only two of last year's letter winners are eligible at this point for intercollegiate competition: Dick Thomas and Jim Redmond, the latter of whom is currently incapacitated with a leg injury...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: 2 Varsity Lettermen Return To Wrestling Coach Boston | 12/6/1941 | See Source »

...various pro-fascist groups? As far as the theory of the right of free speech is concerned, the two cases are identical; there is a difference only in what the Bund and the Socialist Workers Party say in their respective pamphlets and fulminations. If the HLU defends the latter and not the former, the basis for distinction between which the HLU should defend and which it should not defend would seem to lie in what each particular group advocates. If such is the case, then let the HLU come right out and say so in so many words, instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/6/1941 | See Source »

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