Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is Germany? Miss Thompson broadcast by CBS short wave to Germany every Friday from March to September this year, so effectively that she won the blue ribbon of a special condemnation by Dr. Goebbels and. even the grand prize, a reference in a Hitler speech. She spoke her message to Hans, a close friend of bygone years, striving to persuade Hans and like-minded Germans to desire their own defeat-not individual defeats, but the defeat of Germany as now organized...
...white-&-blue ribbon, severed in the middle, fluttered in the Arctic wind. The first U.S.-to-Alaska land route (TIME, Aug. 31) was formally open. Trucks began rolling supplies along the 1,500 miles of double-lane, partly graveled highway from Fort St. John, B.C. to Fairbanks in the heart of Alaska...
...window box to a farm in the country was invited to display his produce in the reception room, and when the judges had cast their final vote we found that TIME's exhibitors had made out pretty well. TIME's General Manager somehow took the blue ribbon for preserves and the Managing Editor of the MARCH OF TIME on the Air won the title "best farmer" with photographs of his Aberdeen-Angus cattle...
Scoring four times in the first minute of play, the Plympton Street All Stars coasted on their laurels and an empty keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon the rest of the way. The first score, chalked up 30 seconds before the opening whistle, came about after a pass, a punt, a prayer, and a foul ball into the left field stands. Refusing to use his anti-tank division until the opening of a second front, Hesdman Rocknelberry Fenn used three full teams and an umpire in subaning the hapless Hanoverians...
...with gee whizzes and holy smokes, is No. 1 U.S. dogcaster. Dog-lovers for a decade have faithfully tuned in on his expert Chats About Dogs; his best-selling How to Raise & Train Your Puppy (Sundial; $1) is a standard reference work. Among his own dogs are several blue-ribbon winners. Becker's sideline claim to fame is that he discovered a new subspecies of bat in Bolivia which Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History named after him: Eumops Bonariensis Beckeri...