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Word: wheel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to me is a hurdy-gurdy affair giving forth lovely Italian-sounding music. A funny old guy stands there turning the wheel as soldiers group around and listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...front of the seventh car, a journal (wheel bearing) burned out. With a tremendous lurch, the train snapped in two. In the rear cars, there were a few ghastly moments when the passengers' felt as if the train were floating through air. Then the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Wreck of the Congressional | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...such a sweeping grant of authority, WLB could mostly thank its four public members, Chairman William H. Davis, Wayne L. Morse, Frank P. Graham and George W. Taylor. Balance wheel between industry and labor members, they had fought consistently for added power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: What Big Teeth You Have | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Wheel of Fortune. If the ex-Duce were really under arrest, his political career had now run full cycle, and an old claustrophobia might be tormenting him. In his youth he had been a vociferous, stinging pleader for socialism and pacifism. For such views he had seen the inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Duce ( 1922-43) | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Zemke: Let's go upstairs. Follow me. . . . Do you want to try one wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Conversation Piece | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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