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Word: smite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smite the hordes of Wotan, ram the gates of hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Whose War? | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

This was just what meteormen were looking for to explain why some meteors apparently smite the earth, then vanish without a trace. If a contraterrene meteorite wandered into the solar system and met up with terrene matter, the respective sub-atomic charges would cancel out in a great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Add Theories | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes has a gift for orotund invective with which he delights to smite enemies of the New Deal. Last week he sighted a new enemy, changed his style, and spat out a good old Fourth of July oration. His enemy: totalitarian nations who boast that they are the new, strong people, fresher and more vigorous than the decadent democrats of the U. S. Shouted an angry and Whitmanesque Mr. Ickes. standing before the Washington Monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Razzberry Laugh | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...smite at the foe till he's down, boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Song Switch | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...more German men and arms were already pouring northward by sea as well as by air from Germany and from new Nazi bases in Denmark, grimly taking losses as they had to, but still coming on. Unlike the Allies' relief expedition, Falkenhorst's invasion was geared to smite and smite again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 23 Days | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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