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...still wet. To David Lloyd George he wrote prophetically: "This Treaty breathes a poisonous spirit of revenge which may yet scorch the fair face, not of a corner of Europe, but of Europe." Of his yapping nationalistic political enemies in Africa he has often said: "The dogs bark, but the caravan moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Caravan Moves On | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Twenty or more thousand square miles in northern Honan Province are clutched in the grip of hunger. Men and women are eating the bark of trees and grass roots; swollen-bellied children are being sold for grain. Thousands have already died, hundreds of thousands are failing, ten millions face the slow winter-long agony of starvation. Causes: 1) the Japanese, who destroyed the rice before they retreated; 2) the gods, who sent no rain for the wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE DESPERATE URGENCY OF FLIGHT | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Chicagoans nostalgically recalled the lush days of gangsterism when Chicago was good for a cadaver a night. Again they wondered when the sawed-offs would bark, wondered whose blood would run and where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Back to the Roaring '20s | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

With this awesome array of talent, one might think George Munger hasn't a worry in the world. But he does; constant experimentation still hasn't produced a quarterback to fill Gene Davis' shoes. In the Penn system, a quarterback must block like a fiend, call signals, and bark signals (Penn uses no huddle) in the best Demosthenesian manner. Jackie McCarthy, a Sophomore converted from end, has top rating right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Stresses Pass Offensive In Drill for Star-Laden Quakers | 10/1/1942 | See Source »

...body in the steel casket had come 12,000 miles. On that unnamed island where he was killed, Private Weiner had been a favorite of the native chief. When he died, the natives held a tribal ceremony. They wove a tapestry of bark and sent it along for his parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Back from the War | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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