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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain of the midget sub who performed the feat of penetrating harbor nets and mapping Battleship Row got the identities of the U.S. warships all wrong, put many of them at the wrong moorings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Anniversary Report | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Eagles and Redskins. Four fine backs, spinning and spiraling from a streamlined T, have sparked the Eagle offensive, which has averaged 28 points a game. The indispensable man is Roy Zimmerman, who runs the show from his ball-handling quarterback spot, also passes and kicks. The sub-stars in the cast are tackle-smashing Halfbacks Ernie Steele and Jack Hinkle, and slippery-hipped Breakaway-Runner Steve Van Buren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Military censors got a new kind of kick in their chair-worn pinks. The kicker was the author of "Marmaduke's Colum (The Journal of a London Sub-Editor's Youthful Son)" which appears weekly in London's World's Press News. Fortnight ago Marmaduke tried to imagine what would happen if Alfred, Lord Tennyson had had to get his Charge of the Light Brigade cleared through the Censorship Division of the British Ministry of Information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Hevvens! | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...engaged in selecting a suitable site for the shindig. An announcement as to the location finally chosen should appear here next week. As an extra added attraction the Messrs. Cross and Brunner will present one of their inimitable stage shows at intermission. Because the Danec is still in a sub-fetal stage complete details will not be available until a later date. Until then, look around and try to find some girl who will go with...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: *The Lucky Bag* | 11/17/1944 | See Source »

...invested with some feeling both for humor and for authenticity. In advancing this idea, casually argued at best, the most efficient debaters are: 1) John Wayne, who is cinema's ablest proponent of rawhide masculinity; 2) neon-eyed Ella Raines, the most human and promising of the young sub-stars; 3) whiskey-whiskered, exuberant "Gabby" Hayes, the most expert old-timer in westerns, who looks rather like Walt Whitman endorsing picnic twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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