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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalingrad's best streets stood Apartment 21-A. It had had a corner sheered off by a German bomb, but Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov and a handful of grenadiers held the building for nine days. Barricades, trenches and machine guns were prepared to control the street intersection. At dawn twelve heavy German tanks, loaded with shocks troops, attacked. Hits from anti-tank guns set five afire. Seven rumbled on. Svetkov and his men had no more anti-tank ammunition, so they hurled grenades from the windows. Three more tanks were disabled. Four came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Apartment 21-A | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...have not been taxed to their capacity. But a married man earning only$12 a week, no matter how many children he may have, most pay a 5 per cent tax on his entire income with no deductions of any kind. He pays the same per cent on his sub-standard wage as the millionaire does on his income. This is called the "victory tax." More truthfully, it is equality in democratic reverse. The Senate ignored entirely any surtax on luxury spending and the body as a whole once again has declined to levy taxes on State bonds. Large proportions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taxes 1942, 1 | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

Overshadowed by Johnson, but very much there, Corky Korczowski is the unsung Evashevski of the Indian backfield. He, too, is a Senior, with three years under Voyles behind him, and, unlike most blocking backs, can actually sub for fullback Johnson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans Promise Big Year For Strong W. and M. Team | 10/3/1942 | See Source »

...sub-zero gale was driving needle-sharp snow over Elk Mountain against the tiny station, piling drifts over the main line to Parco. Traffic had stopped. Outside, almost buried, were a giant mallet locomotive and a mountain snowplow. U.P. General Manager William Martin Jeffers was telling the men he knew the job was dangerous but it had to be done. Not one to give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U. P. Snowplow | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...this fall, more intense than those which operated last summer. Prominent members of the Faculty--such men as Professor Payson Wild and Professor Sidney B. Fay worked with the committees in the past--aid these groups with their opinions, and independent research is carried on by sub-committee members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post-War Council Plans Forum and Meetings in Fall | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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