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Word: sneak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What panic? The panic of the bourgeoisie, of course. . . . For years they knew that this would come. . . . They wanted to continue, to hang on to what they had, to their poor little, dirty, decrepit possessions, and survive . . . just sneak through for another generation. . . . The great whore is about to face judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Prophet | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Last year the University Theatre showed two sneak previews, one of "She Know All the Answers," the other of "Missing Ten Days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sneak Preview at U. T. | 10/22/1941 | See Source »

...sneak preview" of a picture which has not been shown anywhere else in New England will be run at 8 o'clock tonight in place of the scheduled "Blondie in Society," the management of the University Theatre announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sneak Preview at U. T. | 10/22/1941 | See Source »

Silent partner in the smuggling up the south China coast out of Hong Kong last year was the Japanese Navy. For approximately 34,000 Hong Kong dollars a month (U.S. $8,500) Japanese Navy agents granted smugglers the right to sneak into China one tug with as many barges as it could tow up the coast. Military supplies were forbidden but gasoline was permitted. A Japanese agent accompanied the tug to give the O.K. to any inquisitive warship of the Imperial Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN FRONT: FOOCHOW RECAPTURED | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...boat in the Miles races. Last week, for its 79 events, there were 1,500 entries: ranging from sleek sloops and speedboats to the work boats of local oystermen and crabbers. In the sailing classes there were Snipes, Stars, Comets (the Eastern Shore's own baby), Scrappy Cats, Sneak Bores, Crickets. But the heart of the Miles River Regatta is the hallowed log canoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Home Week | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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