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Word: rowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain of the midget sub who performed the feat of penetrating harbor nets and mapping Battleship Row got the identities of the U.S. warships all wrong, put many of them at the wrong moorings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Anniversary Report | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Running its latest losing streak to three in a row, the Harvard Debate Council yesterday lost to Boston University. Debating affirmative in the question of government post-war control of industry, Richard T. Gill '48 and Arthur D. Sporn '47 were defeated by a one-judge decision. The debate took place in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Defeats Debaters For Third Loss in Row | 12/8/1944 | See Source »

...President shed his dripping coat and hat and immediately went to his office for a press conference. The President's good humor had a steady, coal-grate glow this morning. The conference began with a burst of laughter. Franklin Roosevelt had just informed the men in the front row that he had no news-and they had replied, "Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Champ Comes Home | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...which English Psychologist K. O. Newman acted as his own guinea pig, is recorded in Two Hundred and Fifty Times I Saw a Play (Pelagos Press, Oxford; $1). Moreover, Newman saw the play-Terence Rattigan's Flare Path-at successive performances, always sitting in the same third-row aisle seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Record Attendance | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...untidy heaps of shrapnel-torn cars and scarred trees, the homesick locomotive man jiggled his train off over two streaks of rust into the thick, green jungle. Scaring up small clouds of fabulously colored butterflies, the train passed what the bombs had left of a small white church, a row of Chinese graves, a smashed Jap cannon, then rolled on over swamp-spanning bridges to a line of deserted dugouts, a small American cemetery, at last to the Mogaung terminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: On the Road to Mandalay | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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