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Word: sprayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, nasal sprays were no joke for Silent Tom Smith, the man who developed Seabiscuit and this year trained Cosmetic Queen Elizabeth Arden Graham's top money-winning stable ($512,454 in purses). New York's vigilant Jockey Club, having found some dopey spray in one of his horses, banned Trainer Smith from U.S. tracks for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flit-Gun Hop | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Kitchen Commando. In Bloomfield township, Mich., a seemingly endless, six-inch-wide column of black ants streamed into the kitchen of Gunnar Turnquist, who fought them in vain with broom and spray gun, finally won out after blazing away for an hour and a half with a blowtorch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

armed with spray guns and nicotine sul phate, sallied into the tomato and potato fields. Last week, thanks to their deter mined attack and the arrival of hot weather, it looked as if Ohio and its neighboring states had succeeded in repelling the worst invasion of aphids since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ants' Cows | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

They were spraying one acre near Park HQ last summer from the autogiro, having had some difficulties with the DDT never landing when it was dropped in a too-fine spray by ordinary plane (the drops just stayed up and wandered off toward Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...engineers, under a rain of shell and mortar fire, worked feverishly all night. At dawn the German tanks began to move up. The doughboys across the canal began to yell for the bridge and for tanks. The engineers, now raked by a murderous spray of German machine-gun fire, coolly and swiftly worked on. Just as the German tanks struck, the last plank fell into place and U.S. tanks rolled across the bridge. They saved the bridgehead and opened the road to Cologne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Epic of a Bridge | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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