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Word: skipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newsmagazine Idea-for the basic promise we have made you and every other TIME subscriber is not that we will get you the news first, but rather that we will sift through the torrent of news that sweeps past you every day-leave out everything you can afford to skip-and then tell you all the really significant news of the week just as briefly, clearly, memorably and understandingly as we know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 24, 1944 | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Gestapo Chief Wilhelm Rediess decided to change his tactics. He told his bullies to skip the traditional cooling off period, the hours when the weak collapse through fear, but the strong steel themselves for the coming ordeal. His Gestapomen went to work immediately with clubs, pipe-lengths, supple whips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Judas in Oslo | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Russell, whose friends have been giving him up for dead on a day by day basis for at least nine years, used to hang out with the Chicago crowd during his undergraduate days at the University of St. Louis. He'd skip out of classes every week and start back Tuesday so he'd be back Wednesday in time for his first Monday class. One week he was in St. Louis just long enough to buy another ticket to Chicago. He forgot to get a round trip; so he never went back...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...skip for a moment to the affairs that really matter, my roommates and myself would like to request, somewhat wist fully, that student officers with pretty wives would declare the sidewalk in front of Morris Hall out of bounds. It seems that many of these officers allow their women folk to wait for them in front of our window and it is rather disconcerting to serious minded students to see so many well turned ankles gambolling around in front of them. Pulling the shades doesn't work because Rusty Mueller simply can't stand to have the shades down when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

...Saloons with such names as the Alley Cat, Collar and Elbow, Pick and Shovel, Graveyard, Pay Day. >Waitresses with such names as Skip Chute, Mag the Rag, Hay ride, The Race Horse, Take-Five Annie, Ellen the Elephant, Little Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncorseted Wench | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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