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Word: sheerest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story was of shipments occurring in 1944. Meanwhile Broadcaster Lewis kept the pot boiling by throwing in another prospective villain. He charged that Henry Wallace was the official who had overruled General Groves's protest and insisted that atomic materials be sent to the Russians. Snapped Wallace: "Sheerest fabrication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Dark Doings | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Julien in April 1915 (13 years before she was born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital. Two years later, after his parents had given him up for dead (memorial services for him had been held at Perth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Queen | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Beyond the Roer. From the air in a Piper Cub the tank drive was a thing of the sheerest military beauty: First came a long row of throbbing tanks moving like heavy dark beetles over the green cabbage fields of Germany in a wide swath-many, many tanks in a single row abreast. Then, a suitable distance behind, came another great echelon of tanks even broader, out of which groups would wheel from their brown mud tracks in green fields to encircle and smash fire at some stubborn strong point. Behind this came miles of trucks full of troops, maneuvering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A Thing of Beauty | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Nylon stockings, the U.S. woman's sheerest postwar dream, will not be on the market until after Japan is beaten. Once again textile specialists last week blasted all full-fashioned hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Progress in Nylons | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...ratite bird, but meat was a rarity. Once they found some canned salmon that had washed ashore from a sunken Jap supply ship. For ten long, horrifying months they fought sickness and hid from Japs in New Britain's jungle. Last week the world learned that by sheerest luck they had been rescued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Three Who Came Back | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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