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Word: lethally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occurs to many a simple citizen of North America that in selling anything even as lethal as pop bottles to the Japanese their Governments are simply fattening up a snake. And yet the sales of armament materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Leaky Embargo | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...races except the Yale race and the Adams Cup regatta, which will be held at Annapolis, will be on the Charles this Spring, where M.I.T. is planning with lethal intent to win some Harvard shirts...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: ROWING SEASON OPENS WITH PHOTOMEN INVADING NEWELL | 2/18/1941 | See Source »

They have rationalized the guillotine into a lethal contrivance at least no more shocking than the electric chair. They have rationalized the Jacobin Club into an organization of earnest, overzealous patriots who, when it came to offering a human neck to the knife, simply could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea-Green Monster | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Leet says flatly that earthquakes cannot be predicted. But he thinks there is a definite possibility that, sometime in the next half century, a really lethal quake may hit Portland, Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford, Bridgeport, Providence or New York. To minimize the hazard, he advised those cities to start earthquake protection for buildings and utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bad News for New England | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...Louis Hay ward) finds Joan Bennett ensnarled in the political dirty work of the principality of Lichtenburg during the days of Bismarck and Louis Napoleon. Like California's Zorro, he acts the fop in public, climbs into a black hood in private, lashes out at intrigue with his lethal, hardworking sword. Because nothing, including the eventual death of scheming, scar-faced Gurko Lanen (George Sanders), comes as a surprise, a certain necessary element of suspense is missing from these adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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