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Word: subbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moored aircraft tender, blazing under repeated attacks, downed a Japanese plane on her own decks. Simultaneously her captain spotted a midget submarine's shadow within yards of his vessel. Hits were immediately scored and, as the sub's conning tower emerged, a destroyer administered the coup de gráce with depth charges. The tender then shot down a second plane. Motor launches from a vessel laid up for overhaul braved a steady hail of bullets and shrapnel, rescued scores of victims from the oil-fired harbor. Almost without exception officers and men exhibited quick thinking, coolness, coordination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Havoc at Honolulu | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...Japanese, said Frank Knox, lost two of their little-known, tiny two-man submarines (one sunk, one captured), one full-sized sub and 41 aircraft, including those shot down and those forced down for lack of fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Havoc at Honolulu | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Coach Clark Hodder's Yardling sextet scored early and often last night to notch its second straight victory, subduing a sub-par Mt. St. Charles Academy aggregation, 5 to 1, at Providence. Periods of only ten minutes running time greatly handicapped the Crimson, and the Hoddermen, despite the case with which they won, never really warmed to their task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 SEXTET GAINS SECOND WIN, 5 TO 1 | 12/13/1941 | See Source »

Other bills were in the race. The House Judiciary Committee and a Senate Labor sub-committee both were grooming entries this week. There were almost as many ideas for legislation, mild and harsh-mostly harsh-as there were Congressmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: There Ought to Be a Law! | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Inflation is a more popular topic than deflation nowadays, but Mr. Kemler's deflationary remarks are particularly valuable for their timeliness. His "Deflation of American Ideals" is sub-titled "An Ethical Guide for New Dealers," and is aimed at contemporary progressives...

Author: By A. Y., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 12/6/1941 | See Source »

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