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Word: silks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gold and Tungsten. Sinkiang is mostly a vast grazing land, cut up by high mountains, in which are valuable gold and tungsten deposits and narrow, fertile valleys. Its capital, Tihwa (Urumchi), is the crossroads of the age-old silk caravan routes between China and the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Palpitations of the Heartland | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

Clothing. More low-priced items will be made. There will be no nylon or silk stockings until well after final victory, and shoes will still be rationed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Things to Come | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...deity. He rose early each morning (6 or 7 a.m.), shaved himself, bowed before the little shrine of his ancestors in his copper-domed Tokyo castle, breakfasted in foreign style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality set an example to all. He had his underwear thriftily mended, cut imported cigarets and wine from the palace list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The God-Emperor | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame." "Oh, for Crime!" But most of Pater's fellow esthetes took their rebellion more strenuously. In a series of sensuous, pagan hymns, Eton-educated Poet Algernon Swinburne (he had been expelled from the Royal Arts Club for laying the members' silk hats on the cloakroom floor and hopping on them) "shook [a] small, trembling fist" at the man he named "the Socialist of Galilee": Wilt thou yet take all, Galilean? but these thou shalt not take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Art's Sake | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...black stripe, a green-grey tunic and muddy black riding boots. A bullet had pierced his skull over the left eye and emerged at the back, leaving a hole from which the brains dripped. Mistress Petacci, 2 5 -year-old daughter of an ambitious Roman family, wore a white silk blouse. In her breast were two bullet holes ringed by dark circles of dried blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Death in Milan | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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