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Word: killinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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In the stinging blown sand they lay, a polyglot army: Britons, Anzacs, Indians, even some Poles and Free Frenchmen, 40,000 men at most. They manned little tanks, big cruiser tanks, and cruel little balloon-tired armored cars capable of 40 m.p.h. and carrying six machine guns each for killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Battle of the Marmarica | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Ice Follies of 1941 (produced by Oscar F. Johnson, Edwin H. & Roy L. Shipstad ). Like its four annual predecessors, this big, glistening chunk of the new Ice Age will tour throughout the U. S. (23 cities this year). Today's fancy ice skaters have developed an astounding rapport with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

"The bombs fell on a golf course, killing 75 unnamed rabbits. There were 25 persons in an Anderson shelter only a few feet from the golf course and the rabbits, and they weren't even scratched. A parrot, blasted from his cage, was seen walking down the street muttering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Ominous | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Wall Street received its country cousin with open arms, and in no time at all relieved him of his bank roll. It was eight years before he caught on to the New York market. Even then, it took an act of God to give him his first big killing. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boy Plunger | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Jesse Livermore had learned that big money could be made only on the big swings. Now he had enough capital to play it that way. Just before the tense Thursday in October of 1907 when J. P. Morgan & Co. and other banks poured $25,000,000 into the call-money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boy Plunger | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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