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Word: mottoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Real aid to China, real use by the Allies of China's bases for war against Japan, await the clearing of a land supply route, probably through Burma. Said General Arnold: "We have a motto which certainly applies to air operations in the Far East: 'The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Impossibilities Take Time | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

Well camouflaged, lazy-looking spots became busy, alert shacks, anti-aircraft pits, airplanes. On the flanks of planes could be seen the pilots' emblem-a droopy-tailed dragon with the motto: "Our Assam Draggin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: The Dragons | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...massaged and cared for as tenderly as an incubator baby. Around his scrawny shoulders was a red and black checked homespun blanket. On the wall of his small, high-ceilinged room in the Aga Khan's gruesomely Victorian Palace in Poona was a Hindu calendar with the motto: "O Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Only One Answer | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Seymour Schantz and his committee are members of a club called the Boys' Brotherhood Republic, whose motto is "So long as there are boys in trouble, we too are in trouble." The Manhattan B.B.R. enrolls some 300 "citizens,"* occupies a lower East Side tenement, is supervised in a hands-off way by just one adult - short, dark Director George Ougourlian. The club is supported by a philanthropic board of directors and dime-a-month "taxes" from the citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Guts at both ends of the bayonet" is their school motto. A pregraduation demonstration last week at Camp Forrest, Tenn. showed how they lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - At Both Ends | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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