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...still think, despite many reversals of field, that saving democracy in Europe is pretty much the bunk. We are suspicious of this premature child internationalism. Nor are we sure that the trouble with the world is its abandonment of Christianity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...along at 40 knots, in smooth seas smashed along at better than 52 knots (60 m.p.h.). Lieut. Caldwell could also report that when the PTs were under high speed all day, their crews were pounded unmercifully; all they wanted, once back at the Yard, was to crawl into a bunk. The Navy had made no mistake in setting the age limit of PT crews at 35, in speedily washing out of PT service any man who got seasick in heavy going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY,ARMY,PRODUCTION: Mosquitoes off Jersey | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...generals, send me a dozen real economists.' . . . It's all a question of what we do with the next six months. The whole reason for aiding England is to give us time. ... It isn't that she's fighting for democracy. That's the bunk. She's fighting for self-preservation, just as we will if it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Off the Record? | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...which had taken its stand behind the President in an editorial on page 1, inside had printed a columnist's attack on the President. Miss Mallon reminded him that a columnist's opinions were his own, not the publisher's. That, said Mr. Ickes, was the bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Deal v. Newsmen | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...like the family Stein: There is Gert, there is Ep and there's Ein; Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are punk, And nobody understands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptor Lets Fly | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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