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Word: zipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worldwide air-commuting service far bigger than anything air-minded fanatics expected to see before 1950. Thus American and T.W.A. will fly to London at least 24 times every day; United and Pan Am will wing to Australia and India 20-30 times weekly; Braniff, Eastern and Panagra will zip to Central and South America almost as often as crack trains cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Biggest Job Begins | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...somehow it glorifies the Army. It catches the right tone: combines professional training and teamwork with a roaring, youthful zip. If its humor falters, its gaiety never flags. If it lacks sophistication, it makes up for it in lustiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Soldiers' Chorus | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...greying locks of 39-year-old Colonel Samuel R. Harris, FSO director, were growing greyer over the problem: how to better the safety record without destroying the zip, cocksureness and daredevilish-ness of airmen bound for the battlefronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Crashes | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Army & Navy procurement officers, not wanting to take the zip out of production, are almost as opposed to a statutory limit on war profits as businessmen are. Businessmen, not wanting to be unpopular or unpatriotic, are almost as eager to avoid excessive war profits as Congressmen are. So last week, while Congressmen reconsidered a bill to limit all war-contract profits to 10% or less, the Army & Navy quietly perfected a technique of profit control that businessmen could understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Army & Navy Way | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...name for its war. The thought the name should convey: a struggle to preserve the democracies and the small people of the world. "War With the Axis Powers," which someone suggested, was too long. The President did not like "Second World War," "World War II." Not enough zip, Mr. Roosevelt declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unnamed War | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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