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daybreak, and bitter cold, the huge station's black and sooty iron arch gigantically sprawls over people. Mobs, like a water whirlpool, center sullenly turning, edges flicking, breaking, everywhere soldiers, soldiers, soldiers. Clots of people about them, wives, children, relatives, friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...glossy, hair, fair skin, slight, almost skinny figure, she is still pretty ... young, scared . . . at the noise, welling up, drowning her, beating the ugly mocking arch overhead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...also know that Germany will live. For England is already blockaded. The country that wants to starve us is itself shut up like a mouse in a trap. We want to be hard in this war. We are going to forget the arch-evil, our good nature, and will be hard and relentless in battling for our demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Our Faith! | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

EUROPEAN JUNGLE - Francis Yeats-Brown-Macrae Smith ($3). England's yogi-man (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Yogi Explained} submits a hot-eyed appraisal of pre-war Europe. Yeats-Brown's arch-enemies are Communism, Atheism, Internationalism, Pacifism. Hitler, "a great man, whatever his failings . . . great in spirit," is favorably compared with Gandhi, T. E. Lawrence. France is "one of the most enjuivé [Jewridden] countries in Europe . . . nothing but a dictatorship can save [the French]." Readers who must grant the author the courage of his two-thirds fascist convictions, supported by no little factual solidity, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History & Argument | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less complicated back flip) and Duos (synchronized tumbling by two or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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