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Word: zeroed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went with a captain called Peter in his Bren gun carrier. His job was to go in with the first infantry attack and then to haul mortars and anti-tank guns across the wadi, once we had consolidated our positions. Zero hour was originally 11, then it was postponed until 1 in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: ACROSS WADI ZIGZAU | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Dektred is a new Goodyear nonskid flooring material for ships. A thick liquid, it may be sprayed or troweled on steel, wood or concrete, weighs little in the thin coating (1/32 in.) needed. Dektred is unimpaired by 50°-below-zero cold, softens but slightly in 160° heat, resists gasoline, oil, soap, salt water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wartime Technology, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Briggs was the high scorer for the second place Lowell squad, and Macpherson was their Mr. Zero. There were close races in both sports, neither of the champions being determined until the final contests of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL-HOUSE BASKETBALL, HOCKEY TEAMS CHOSEN | 3/17/1943 | See Source »

...work of the Radio Section has been acknowledged by a torrent of military fan mail. Comedian Bob Hope closed one Command Performance broadcast with the remark that if the boys wanted Songstress Ginny Simms to purr another number, "just tear off the top of a Zero and send it in." The boys sent a big hunk of wing with the Rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Shows | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Instead of zero, preferred and common stockholders will get warrants to purchase new stock at a "reasonable" price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hope in MOP | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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