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Word: shadow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops closing in on Munda had learned much since Bataan; these troops were fighting a new kind of warfare. Once they wore khaki and blue dungarees; now they were clad in mottled yellow-brown-green coveralls that blended with the deep color and shadow of the tropics. Once they had little else to fight with but machine guns, rifles and knives; now they had ample artillery and support from sea and air. Once they massed and deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Moving on Munda | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...stood at a microphone and told his countrymen he was sorry that Arne Andersson had not come along with him. Andersson, a 27-year-old Gothenburg schoolteacher, had set the pace for Hägg in most of his seven world's record runs, had always finished a shadow length behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gunder's Shadow | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Last week, on the eve of his second U.S. appearance, Gunder Hägg was doubly sorry his shadow had stayed home. In the National Swedish Festival track meet at Gothenburg, just a year to the day after Hägg broke the world's mile record, Andersson beat it by two full seconds with a 4:02.6 mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gunder's Shadow | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

While Hägg entrained for California, third stop on his nationwide tour, U.S. track officials began pulling wires to get a transatlantic passage for the shadow Hägg left behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gunder's Shadow | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...suggestions: they might "create a city of calm in a windy location" by means of windbreaks and shelterbelt planting, cool or warm a city by the use of "heat-generating or light-reflecting facades in city building," control the effects of the sun by intelligent planning of light and shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather Control? | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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