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Word: sawtooth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S. It rises from a maze of flowing springs and meanders 22 miles across a meadow south of the Sawtooth Mountains. Its rainbows grow so big (up to a record twelve pounds) because of an abundance of freshwater shrimp for them to feed on. Its channels are clear and shallow; a shadow cast across the water is enough warning for its wary rainbows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting Rainbows | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...thousand miles away, beneath Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains in glossy Sun Valley, Utah's team skied to victory last week in the West's intercollegiate championship meet against 125 entrants from 25 colleges. What looked to be the biggest & best U.S. ski season on record had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ski Fever | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...brisk south wind was scattering tiny white clouds across the blue sky above Atsugi airfield when the first U.S. troops landed. Tall grass, dancing in the wind, cast sawtooth patterns on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: The Last Beachhead | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...fighter plane with teeth that work-suggested by the sharks' teeth painted on the Flying Tigers' P-4OS. The plane has a retractable sawtooth bar which can be thrust out below the wings to cut an enemy plane to pieces. One of its two inventors is Brigadier General Robert Kauch of the Army Air Forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

History was repeating itself in the sawtooth mountains and jungled valleys of the Arakan where the Burma-India border touches the Bay of Bengal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Draw in Burma | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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