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Word: wrack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since he was a student. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Holy Curiosity | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...elevator, was soon in his third-floor office and busy at the most difficult job of his life. Ike Eisenhower, who had conquered some massive tasks in his day, was directing the rebuilding of the U.S. Army and its once-great Air Forces, both still at the edge of wrack & ruin as the result of the U.S.'s planless postwar demobilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Balance | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...wrack of a June cloudburst, the "Sacred Cow" swooped down onto Orly airport near Paris. As Jimmy Byrnes led his party down the ramp, he looked his 68 years. He was here for Paris II-the third attempt of the Big Four's foreign ministers to lay a basis for World War II peace treaties, and the look on his face said "three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Out of the Storm? | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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