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  • Roosevelt even sent Donovan his own wild suggestions, such as one Eleanor passed on from a Pennsylvania dentist who claimed that bats fitted with tiny time-delayed incendiary devices could be powerful terror weapons if dropped from planes over Japanese homes.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Explosives shaped like lumps of coal nicknamed “Black Joe” and pocket-sized incendiaries with time-delayed fuses to start fires were sent to Europe.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Planes released bats that were fitted with time-delayed incendiary devices.

    The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011

  • Explosives shaped like lumps of coal nicknamed “Black Joe” and pocket-sized incendiaries with time-delayed fuses to start fires were sent to Europe.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • This will lead to a time-delayed trickle-down effect as spots clear up at each successive tier of colleges as their best admitted students get in to the spots vacated at the next higher tier.

    Harvard's Decision on Early Decision, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • If not, Dollhouse will be one and done, even with the lofty time-delayed numbers adjustment it seems to have gotten.

    We gather today to pay our respects… 2009

  • I'd like to thank KG for making sure it was known that I was away, despite my attempts to disguise that fact by doing up some time-delayed half-assed posts.

    Archive 2009-08-16 Tyler 2009

  • I'd like to thank KG for making sure it was known that I was away, despite my attempts to disguise that fact by doing up some time-delayed half-assed posts.

    Back from Vegas Tyler 2009

  • That was a very quiet South Elmsall living room, just the voices from the television and the soft-focus black and white images coming from the Smoke, from halfway around the world, and, time-delayed, from 240,000 miles above us.

    From Twitter 07-19-2009 2009

  • Roosevelt even sent Donovan his own wild suggestions, such as one Eleanor passed on from a Pennsylvania dentist who claimed that bats fitted with tiny time-delayed incendiary devices could be powerful terror weapons if dropped from planes over Japanese homes.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

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