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Word: nevadas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevada's dapper young Berkeley L. Bunker, presiding, rapped in vain for order. For three hours the debate raged uncontrolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mood of the Statesmen | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Robert M. Clawson, of Spokane, Washington, as resident consultant in the Graduate School of Public Administration; M.S. University of Nevada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10 Appointments Made To University Staff | 1/30/1942 | See Source »

...miners in Nevada's mountains, some 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas, heard a terrific explosion, saw a vivid flash near the top of Table Rock Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: End of a Mission | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Veteran isolationist Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, 65: "[In any peace treaty] we should take care of America first. Every other country is looking out for itself and we should look out for ourselves. Old German States should be separated and kept separated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Hot Talk | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Magnesium is everywhere. It is a vital ingredient of chlorophyll, and without it leaves would not be green. Every cubic mile of sea water contains 5,700,000 tons of it. Whole mountains of its ores lie among the Austrian Alps, the southern Appalachians, the Sierra Nevada. The far Western States are strewn with it; salt lakes are saturated with it. But until aviation came along, nobody wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Revolution in Magnesium | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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