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Word: slicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corporal Slick's Ride. The battle of Stalingrad was under way when the first men of the P.G.C. landed. Droves of supply-packed Liberty ships soon followed. But from the port of Bandar Shahpur there was no transport to Russia except a single-track railroad, running across desert as bare as the Sahara and through 47 miles of tunnels in mountains almost as high as the Rockies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: People Going Crazy | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Thinking & Thunder. Both artists set out to show Nebraskans what their State looks like. Ranged on the walls of a David City municipal basketball court, Dale Nichols' pictures said it was a slick, sweet place. In Shelby's old mortuary, Terence Duren posted a tougher pictorial message. In his canvases, picnic wrappings were left on the ground, fat rolls and wrinkles decorated ladies' faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: War In the Corn | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...Liberty lacks today is package," says Hunter, moaning low over his lack of better paper to match his better contents. Pointing to the pulp layer in the middle of a slick paper sandwich, he sighs: "We have to print novels on toilet paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Lease | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Expertly appraising this booming market, France's smooth, slick ex-Premier and Finance Minister Reynaud announced that he was going to write his memoirs, refused to reveal what would be in them, put the unwritten opus up for auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Now It Can Be Sold | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...water again. To tell the Russians more about the U.S., it had been getting out a handsome, slick-paper magazine, America Illustrated, which is printed in Russian and sold in Russia for 15 rubles (90 cents). Of the first issue. 20,000 copies were distributed; OWI got glowing reports from Vladivostok, Murmansk and Tiflis. Last week it got reports, not so glowing, from Omaha, Nebraska, and Wichita, Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lesson for the Teacher | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

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