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Word: trapsing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gun crews slid into the two heavy turrets fore and aft and dogged the traps after them. The huge barrels nodded as if eager to belch. Lines of fire hose were dragged out on deck and left sputtering into the waterways. The decks emptied of men.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Retired from active service, he still headed the national defense council which built a defense-in-depth system across the Karelian Isthmus. Fashionable, popular way for Finns to spend their vacation the past two years was to go dig on the Mannerheim Line. This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 36-to-1 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Finland's efficient Army-every Finnish male receives more than two years' military training beginning at 21 and remains in the Reserve or the Territorial Army up to his 52nd year-was brought up to a strength of 300,000 last week. Its Commander in Chief, Lieut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Active Neutrality! | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Until recent years the beaver was seen only in woodsy ponds, traps, men's hats, women's sport coats, alphabet books. Three years ago he appeared in the Government's Interior Department, which employed him to dam streams, in projects ranging from erosion control to better housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Law for the Beaver | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

A detachment of neutral news correspondents, including five Americans, toured Germany last week from Aachen to Kaiserslautern, guided by German officers who happily, confidently showed them the wonders of the Westwall. The correspondents wrote marveling descriptions of the Wall's depth, complexity and strength; its clever tricks of camouflage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: First Month | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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