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Word: torches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Sea of Azov northward, crackling flames licked the tortured face of Russia. In anger and frustration the retreating Wehrmacht was setting to the torch the villages and towns it could no longer hold. And as the fiery line moved to the west, it traced, as nothing else could, the path of the Nazi flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: On to Kiev | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...Seniors and more appropriately for the Quickies the time has come. On your cap device there are two hands on the torch the sea Hous are bowed, and the dolphin has finished his dive. Neptunus Rex will soon become a reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 8/3/1943 | See Source »

...torch-singing accomplice is Gypsy Rose Lee's little sister, June Havoc. The comedy is also complicated by Cinemactor Menjou's love life and the fact that each new crisis keeps postponing Sailor Phyffe's shore leave until all that is left for his honeymoon is a matter of minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...Infrared rays are now used to dry damp sand molds for castings, cutting drying time and freeing labor needed by the torch and charcoal method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wartime Technology, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Worst pun of the week: "May gal's a welder. She's carrying the torch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAFF | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

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