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...part which reads into the "Presidency" column a consistent thread of sly cynicism, imputing an oiled, opportunistic hypocrisy to President Roosevelt's every act and statement? Whereas Mr. Willkie is categorically declared to be "honest," and is invariably presented in the colors of a plain blunt man (with some few endearing foibles to be sure) yet withal a disinterested, liberal patriot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...German radio was more blunt: "We can only repeat this, Britons: don't get restive-we are coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Don't Get Restive | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Penson and Sachs, goal; Killam and Pecci-Blunt, right half; Oresman and Lowe, left half; Ives, Myerson, and Kyte, right half; Edgar, center half; McCook and Hanford, left half; Willetts and Staber, right outside; Murphy and Poor, right inside; Calhoun and Sawhill, center forward; Vorley and Gifford, left inside; and Herskovits, left outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOTERS WIN FIRST GAME | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...Pecci-Blunt at right full, Al Merck at left full, William Matthews at right half, John Deaver at center half, Anson McCook at left half, George Willetts at right outside, Captain John Calhoun at right inside, John Sawhill at center, Dick Gifford at left inside, and Herky Herskovits at left outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 80 SOCCER MEN EXPECTED | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

...were falling on London, C. Martin Wilbur, curator of Chinese archeology & ethnology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, called attention to his exhibit of Chinese whistling arrows. They were used by Manchu bodyguards to frighten people off the streets when the emperor rode by. The large, blunt whistle head kept them from being dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whistling Arrows | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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