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...excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Fang Pullers | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...Schuylers now broil their meat lightly, instead of eating the raw, bloody, buttered beef and liver they used to.) Her parents were not surprised at Philippa's precocity, which began when she crawled 18 inches at the age of a month, read, wrote her name, spelled 150 long words at two. At four she could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philippa's Day at the Fair | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Papen's speech out of second editions of German papers which had managed to rush it into their first, and Roarer Göing had as much as seconded von Papen in a speech admitting that enthusiasm for Naziism was some what on the wane. Amid this Cabinet broil Herr Hitler showed himself the Little Man. He begged everyone please to be friends and patched up a tea party in the Ministry of Propaganda at which Dr. Goebbels and Lieut.-Colonel von Papen sipped at each other with wolfish smiles while the world in general was defied to collect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Second Revolution? | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Manhattan, one Stanley Podloudy, loiterer, forced Stanley Pietraszkiewitz, janitor, downstairs, tried to shove his head into a stove, broil him. Vexed, Stanley Pietraszkiewitz bit off Stanley Podloudy's left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sandglasses | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

Evidently the Prohibition broil is getting too hot for the politicians and they figure it better to jump out of the frying pan into the fire of hard times. The full dinner pail is accordingly held forth to tempt the working man away from the overflowing beer bucket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAND OLD PROSPERITY | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

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