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Word: weaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know there is a tendency to deride and disparage the bomber effort against Germany. . . . This attack is not going to get weaker, but is going to get continually stronger until, in my view, it will play a perfectly definite part in taking the strain off our Russian ally and in reducing building and construction of submarines and other weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Muddles & Mismanagements | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...immediate military position of the United Nations is far weaker today than it was before Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: THE FIRST SIX MONTHS | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...been even when the Nazis battered at Moscow's gates and the whole world thought Russia crushed He could ponder Joseph Stalin's new order of the day to the Russian Army (see p. 26), loaded with assurance that Russia had grown stronger, Germany weaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tough Baby from Moscow | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...more than the U.S. regularly bases in the Pacific. But in tonnage and fire power the fleets have somewhere near parity; and, if the Jap battlewagons are scattered from Nagasaki to Ceylon there is always the chance that a bold move by Admiral Nimitz might catch up with a weaker Japanese unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF INDIA: Quiet in the Bay | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...last week. But they inflicted terrible naval losses on the British. Near the key island of Ceylon, at the southwestern entrance to the Bay of Bengal, R.A.F. fighters knocked down at least 75 Jap planes. Yet, after a week of combat, the British were weaker, the Japanese were relatively stronger than they had been when the battle started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF INDIA: Over the Bay | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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