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Word: tap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conant believes the Army & Navy could tap this reservoir for at least 50,000 excellent officers simply by choosing promising high-school seniors and paying their way through college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Untapped Reservoir | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Fourth-draft registrants will have no order numbers or lottery, will not be inducted into military service. They will, however, provide a vast new reservoir of skilled and unskilled labor which tall, tanned, handsome Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt plans to tap freely as the defense industry manpower shortage becomes more acute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense - MANPOWER: Grandpa Too | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...Noted as Tap-Dancer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERVICE FATAL TO "VIC" EHLER | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...beginning of the Ehler tradition in the Yard. Every present and former inhabitant of Matthews remembers Vic's bellowing summons to the telephone and his remarkable knack for knowing all there is to know around the Yard. He was also noted for his colorful tap-dancing, and his demonstration of the correct manner to fire a torpedo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERVICE FATAL TO "VIC" EHLER | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...contributes the savvy, it's youth that has the oomph. Pretty, dusky Nightclub Performer Hazel Scott tosses tunes from one end of the piano to the other in a dazzling succession of tempos and keys; and Paul Draper, least typical and most aristocratic of tap dancers, performs in his crispest and most brilliant style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Manhattan | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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