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Word: leggedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Episode at Changteh. Unmelting Chinese troops last week crept back through the blackened ruins of Changteh, harassing the bedraggled, bandy-legged Japanese in retreat toward their Yangtze River bases. The communiqués once again created an impression of another violent battle in a continuous, violent war. The impression was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Objective: Limited | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Hollywood has found a sensational new comic of peerless proportions and undiscovered sex. He or she (nobody can tell) is a black-bodied, yellow-legged, orange-beaked Mynah bird named Raffles which has a positive genius for saying the wrong thing at the right time in an Oxford accent.*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Bird | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

In the living room, near the pink-tiled fireplace, Sam has a flat-topped, eight-legged desk, flanked by pictures of Robert E. Lee and Franklin Roosevelt. Upstairs is his den, lined with volumes of Texas history. The Rayburns live well: breakfasts of ham & eggs, biscuits and honey; lunches and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Mister Speaker | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Equaeverpoise. Des Moines citizens who were curious about Lawsonomy could find some books and newspapers on the subject in the city library. Lawsonomy is to produce "the master human intellects of all time." It introduced "zigzag and swirl movement" and the law of penetrability. Samples of what the new university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Zigzag & Swirl | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Time and Training. By the close of the conference there had been plenty of argument, a good deal of agreement, some conclusions unanimous or purely personal. Some of the conclusions: U.S. fighter planes are the world's best. They have one common fault: decreased pilot visibility, inevitably sacrificed for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Killers' Convention | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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