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Word: slosher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quesne Martel. This brilliant young man helped develop tanks in 1916. In November of that year he wrote a paper suggesting an entire Army of fighting vehicles. Later, he built the first one-man tank in his own garage. Known by his staff as Q, by his friends as "Slosher," he was, as all insiders knew, the man to produce tanks. But Martel was only a colonel, and when he was made a major general he was given charge not of tanks but of Territorials (militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Brains Utilized | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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