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Word: soiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army's Man. For this vital campaign the Gissimo's only weapon is China's army, a peasant army, full of superstitions as simple as the soil from which it springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: The Incident Becomes a Crisis | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...That Hart, knowing his fleet was adequate only for hit-&-run tactics, had left them to stand and fight because of the understandable desire of stubborn Dutch Vice Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich to keep the Japs out of the last bit of Netherlands Indies soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Tommy Hart's Gold Star | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...Joan of Arc was (traditionally) a sweet-faced, lissome brunette who fired a disunited France and its weakling Dauphin to clear French soil of a 15th-Century invader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: St. PierregLaval | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...tional Church Hymnal" which deletes all references to Jerusalem, Zion and anything else that might be considered "Jewish." It cuts the number of hymns from 500 to 284, omits entirely such favorites as Martin Luther's Communion and Easter hymns, adds many new hymns glorifying Nazi blood & soil doctrines. A new baptismal hymn, Tender Child of German Blood, runs: "We baptise thee that thou may be consecrated to the service of our people in loyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nazi Hymnal | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

There were old and great Islandian families, but none were vastly wealthy, and none knew want. They were free from venereal diseases, and very vigilant lest foreigners import them. They felt a reverence for the soil in which the esthetic and the utilitarian were inseparable. When Consul Lang tried to sell them on the time-saving uses of U.S. farm machinery, they were far less interested in time-saving than in the indecent strain which would be put on their horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daydream | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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