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Word: method (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad to have you..." and all that! This is the "home atmosphere approach" most dangerous to men from California, Washington and similar distances away. The farther from Boston you come, the longer you've been away from home, the more vulnerable you are to this method of attack...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...someone had changed his name tag to "RIN TIN TIN". . . would that have made his "wolfing" legitimate? . . . and speaking of women. . . Platoon Seven of Charlie lost two more to the fair sex when CHARLEY RITT and BOB SPORE tied the knot to gals named "HELEN". . . any way, its one method of getting a leave...

Author: By Melvin Parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

Gleam. In Springfield, Ill., Policeman George Ford was bothered by bees swarming at the busiest corner in town. Then a young woman gave him her mirror and a method. He sent a flash into the swarm, swung it to a nearby wall. The bees followed the gleam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 5, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...Aluminum Co. of Canada will pay for the dam from its contracts by the close of the war, will come out with "a monopoly which will dominate electric-power resources and the production of aluminum on the American continent and to a large extent throughout the world." The method of finance, he contends, makes the project a "virtual gift" to the aluminum interests, and "the greatest financial grab ever pulled off in . . . Canada." Shipshaw, insists he, must be seized by the Province of Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Power Issue | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Queen Mary will build and boss her own war factory on her estate in Gloucestershire. Said London's Daily Mail: "She decided on this method of personal contribution to the war effort after she had visited dozens of Britain's leading factories. ..." What her little arsenal will make was not announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Everyone Works | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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