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After a month of butting against stubborn Chinese defenders at a dozen points along China's Yellow River, from the Great Wall pass in northwest Shansi to Chengchow, 300 miles to the southeast in Honan, Japanese forces finally secured a toehold on the Chinese-held south bank of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Toe-Hold | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Scrum end-lineup for the start or resumption of play. The ball-pigskin covered but blunter than an American football-is thrown between two packs of forwards who bend over with locked arms, butting against each other and trying to kick the ball out to their backs. Scrum follows a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rugger | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

And there was a witness. On the bridge of the German tanker Phœbus, butting the storm under ballast, stood Capt. Dalldorf, taking a turn himself on the second mate's midnight watch. Gazing upward at the ugly sky, he saw, to his astonishment, the flashing red & green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Akron Goes Down | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

With compassion and bitter sorrow, St. Gandhi imagines he has seen the Christian world brutalized and its morals stultified by the Machine. He knows that in Japan (the sole Asiatic nation which has mechanized itself) women now work all night in the textile mills (a scandal against which Lancashire bitterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

"Recpolism." As an economic weapon the spinning wheel may be mere butting against a wall, but it is also the symbol of Statesman Gandhi's political program of "non-cooperation." The man is in fact a triple personality: Saint, Anti-Machinist, Statesman. He insists upon mixing up Religion, Economics and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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