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Word: incursion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When you get "fired" as a civilian, or "quit," you are free to go your way, but not so in the Army. Instead, you get transferred to some disagreeable job, such as mess officer, or permanent kitchen police (if enlisted man). It's a courageous man who "quits" his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Eliot, but seems hardly aware of the dangers a democracy incurs which too readily rejects its skeptics and suspects its individualists. Alfred Kazin's On Native Grounds ($3.75) recreates, enthusiastically, the climate of U.S. letters from the 19th Century to the present but loses, thanks to its enthusiasm, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

This decision of the United States according to Rand, is most un-neutral and incurs the possible risk of war. Meanwhile, he continued, we must work toward the goal of production that our industry now promises, and with our superiority in materials defeat Hitler without sending a soldier across the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAND BACKS F.D.R. IN LINDBERGH CASE | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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