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Word: racks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government as this takes a special act of Congress. The value of these personal belongings, furniture, etc. is about double what I received as Minister for these two years. 3) My dog was in the baggage compartment, and there were two extra seats not used in the bomb rack for people from Africa to America. 4) The Legation in Cairo had arranged for me to travel by Clipper in real luxury, but I canceled it as I could save this $1,500 or so for the Government. As a result I was in a bomb rack for twelve hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...camera has a lot to say in Pulham, and says it without mumbling. It has the picture's opening sequence all to itself: the boiled egg on the breakfast table, sugar and cream enriching the coffee, the morning paper in its rack, the absent-minded good-by kiss, the derby, the rubbers, the two peanuts for the squirrels on his walk to the office, the breathing exercises in the park, the cigar at the old stand, the musty office, the waiting letters on his desk, the clock at exactly 9 a.m. After that sequence, with hardly a spoken word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Playing their second home game, the Varsity lacrosse team opposes Dartmouth in an attempt to rack up their second win of the season on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock...

Author: By Jay KAY Lazrus, | Title: Stickmen Look For Second Win of Year Against Big Green Team This Afternoon | 5/13/1941 | See Source »

...something less than two feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell casing from a semiautomatic breech, allow a split second for the gases to be blown out the muzzle, return the empty casing to its place in a rack beneath the breech, yank out a live shell, smack it in the breech, close the breech lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: M3 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Philadelphia Saturday night, it was a different story. Here the Crimson jumped into the lead at the outset and never gave it up, winning eventually by a ten-point margin, 44-34. Buckley stole the show, sinking the ball from all angles to rack up eight field goals in the first half, one in the second and two free throws for a twenty point total

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: FIVE DEFEATS BIG RED, PENN DURING TRIP | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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