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Then Tuffy thought the danger was over and began to bark playfully. The signalmen tried to quiet him, but Tuffy took it for play, and barked again. There was a quick council, conducted in monosyllables, then one of Tuffy's masters reached out in the dark and strangled him. The silence in the cellar was deeper and heavier than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Tough on Tuffy | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Technology has been a boon to the silverfish. This swift, slithery, scaly insect, less than half an inch long, is an old inhabitant of forests, where it nests under stones and in the bark of dead trees. But it has recently migrated to the city in prodigious numbers because of its fondness for a modern product: rayon. It also likes linen, starched cotton, flour. Unlike the moth, which feeds slowly, the silverfish is a ravenous eater, can make lacework of a shirtfront in a few hours. It is also very hard to starve out ; a well-stuffed silverfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Insect Front | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Then, you'll meet a fine group of professors. But we'll put you wise to them You'll meet Merriam in Fuel and Management. His bark is worse than his bite. As long as your old man uses Standard Oil, you're in. Then there is Arthur Hanson. He'll yell and yell and yell, and he'll tell you a tall one about a Peanut Wagon. Well, listen to him, because you'll soon find that you really are learning a lot of accounting. All you have to do is to get a Dist. in his course...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T.x. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/18/1944 | See Source »

...rare thing for a bird or a dog to twitter, bark or glare at its reflection (see cut). But unlike most such birds & beasts, the Rydal sparrow disdains all other windows and reflectors. So infatuated is the sparrow that it utterly ignores other sparrows, despite their "auxiliary attractions of smell and song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Narcissistic Sparrow | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...also loves to sneak up on fellow reporters in the dead of night, scare the day lights out of them with a belch which has been favorably compared with the bark of a French 75. There are probably still some G.I.s who would not give their last cigaret or blanket to Ernie Pyle. But nothing that any G.I. can scrounge from another is too good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ernie Pyle's War | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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