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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the ward, the fugitives jumped a second guard and a trusty, hustled them, into a sub-basement and locked them up. Through a tunnel used for steam pipes and electric cables they fled, unlocking two doors with keys which they had long since prepared. The tunnel opened on the side of a railroad embankment, down which they slid and ran along the tracks. In Water Street they were spotted by two cops. They fired, killing Patrolman James Fagan. Patrolman William Nelson fired back, drilling Convict James Waters through the heart. The other two, Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale, pelted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sing Sing Break | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

After thus tripling the size of his Army sub-cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt went to work on his top-rank fighting men, sent over a list of ten new major generals, 39 new brigadiers. Once confirmed, the list will give the Army a total of 363 general officers on the active list. When World War I began, the Army had only 35 active-list generals. When World War II began, the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Measure of Growth | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Student Council will hear a report from Seth C. Crocker '41, chairman of the Food Committee, at its biweekly meeting tomorrow night and at their next meeting the Masters will learn what their sub-Committee has done from Gerald F. Else '29, head tutor of Winthrop House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORT DUE ON SELF-SERVICE PLAN IN HOUSE DINING-HALLS | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...concentrate in Geology you will have a selection of five sub-fields: general geology, mineralogy, economic geology, paleontology, and a special field known as structural geology, in which you will have to take a special exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION | 3/11/1941 | See Source »

...charge was made as a group of union representatives was presenting to a federal conciliator a set of written demands as basis for settlement of a threatened strike against three Ford plants which have $154,000,000 in government contracts for airplane engines, pygmy trucks, and bomber sub-assemblies...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 3/5/1941 | See Source »

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