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...Sycamore tells of a postman who, tired of walking and sick to death of people, decides he would like to become a tree. He plants himself in the backyard, and begins by catching cold and being hooted at by the neighbors. Then he grows bark, roots and leaves, ends by becoming a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Tinsel Jubilee | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Testified Vassili Ivanovich Vikhorov: "My father, my mother, my sister, my daughter, aunt and uncle all died of hunger. ... I ate dead horsemeat. I chewed the raw leg of a horse I found in a field. It made me ill. Sometimes I ate the bark of trees. The Nazis did not give us anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Germans Must Pay | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...result, the newly selected advanced course cadets will function as sergeants only during the first semester of their third year, and will assume command of the regiment as commissioned cadet officers in the second half of the third year, giving them three semesters in which to bark commands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Advances 75 Mil Sci 2 Men | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

...Bulldogs will have to do more than bark to drown out the Crimson stands in the Yale Bowl two weeks from Saturday, for the Band has announced that they definitely will make the trip to New Haven in full strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Journey to Yale in Full Strength | 11/6/1942 | See Source »

...cuckoo is momentarily baffled by a nest built in a hollow tree or other enclosed space with an aperture too small for her to enter. In this case the cuckoo just hangs at the entrance of the hole (by clinging to the edge of the nest, a twig, or bark of the tree) and lets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cuckoo | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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