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...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Woman Behind the Man | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...rules of soccer call for two extra periods in case of a deadlock, and in the final one demanded. Chamberlin took a pass from his teammate Paul Paris and slapped it through to sew up the victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Soccer Varsity Defeats Crimson, 2-1 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Revolt against the Russians was reported breaking out in Estonia; the Germans set up a puppet Government for Lithuania. If the Germans could quickly sew up the Baltic littoral, they would not only have developed the northern arm of the master pincers; they would also have deprived Russia of bases for her large fleet of submarines, which might prove embarrassing to the German flow of ore from Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: How Long For Russia? | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Then Leader Pechanatz gravely handed Mrs. Mitchell a phial of poison, showed her how to sew it in the collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Tapped for Skull & Bones | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

With the score tied at 1 to 1 Ayres was banished for checking in the center zone, and this proved to be Harvard's undoing. The Eli's first line of McLen, Carton, and Hazen passed Bob Kayser, three times inside of thirty seconds to sew up the game. Harvard's defense was utterly unable to cope with the stick-handling and skating ability of these three when short-handed, and Kayser was at the mercy of the swift Blue forwards...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Varsity Defeats Elis in Squash; Yale Sextet Downs Crimson 8-2 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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