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Word: sanding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betio is changed greatly. The tangled morass of coconut logs and bomb-pitted sand has been leveled. Orderly rows of tents have risen to shelter the marines, the sailors, the airmen and the Seabees who man this outpost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: On to Westward | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...brought an unlooked-for diversion. Higher than bustard ever flew, the wings of a DC-3 soared up from the south, circled Hafar-el-Ats's cool palms, slid down the desert air, rolled to a dusty stop on the hot sand. Out stepped a group of Americans led by bouncing, balding Major General Ralph Royce, retiring U.S.A.A.F. chief in the Middle East, and his affable successor, Brigadier General Benjamin F. Giles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Magic Carpet | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Up from the Mud | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Cross-Texture of Violence. There is the endlessly cautious, catlike approach that a few marines make, across the open sand, to a blasted revetment which may still hold Japanese life, American death. There is the attempt on the part of a few others, as careful and painful as the probing of a complex wound, to climb a bunker and clean out its far side with rifles, flamethrowers, grenades. There is the weird, exquisite variety of individual expressions of skill and fear, which are the cross-texture of the violence of combat. Smoke, ruined palms, a boundless sense of death choke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 20, 1944 | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Attention, M. Miller--we quote from a Baker encyclopaedia: "the Catta Pilosa, commonly referred to as the caterpillar, is one of the most clean of its species. Erroneously believed to be a lice carrier, the 'catta' actually feeds upon lice and sand fleas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 3/17/1944 | See Source »

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