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Word: malaysia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inflicted the greatest disaster ever sustained by Japanese arms." To the enemy, this disaster meant the practical annihilation of 23 divisions ("or equivalents")-450,000 men, of whom 409,261 were reported killed, 9,774 prisoners. It meant also that Japan had been cut off from her conquests in Malaysia. It meant the "collapse of the enemy's imperial concept of a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Victory | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Gordie Van Moyer (from I) is gifted in solving disbursing problems so naturally BuPers sent him to Stinkaldei of the Malaysia Group, the only place in the Malaysia Group, the only place in the world presenting so many intriguing problems in reference to phytogeography. This is NOT a pornographic term, consult your FSSC...

Author: By Carl Bunje and Fred Burns, S | Title: Ward Room Topics | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

Culbertson, as an amateur geopolitico, proposed uniting the nations of the world into eleven regional federations: the U.S. and Latin America, the United Kingdom and British Dominions, Latin Europe, Middle Europe, Northern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, China, India, Japan, Malaysia. Each federation would have its own constitution, its own government. Neither nations nor federations would have armies-only police forces armed with nothing heavier than machine guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Culbertson's System | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Herbarium of the Arboretum was increased by 19,413 mounted specimens from many parts of the world, bringing the total collection to 513,880. Specimens were received from Japan, China, the Philippines, Australia, Malaysia, Papuasia, Polynesia, India, and Indo-China, as well as from North and South America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arnold Arboretum Makes Additions In Spite of War | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...wait to defeat Japan? Japan is concentrating attack on territories in Asia and Malaysia. It will let Honolulu alone if we don't intervene. Why not, on the Committee's premises, let Japan run amok and simply withdraw to the eastern Pacific...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/10/1941 | See Source »

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