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...editorial devoted to Sendak, the "Elkhart Indiana Truth" said: "Sendak sounds like a very wise young man--but after he has come into contact with the buzz-saw of Indiana politics, he will be a lot wiser in the ways of human nature than he will ever be from his studies at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "OUR TEDDY" SEEKS ELECTION IN INDIANA STATE PRIMARIES | 5/8/1940 | See Source »

...Muggeridge proceeds, his cold sickness about his own country gradually takes on power, the buzz of his crowding details mounts to a kind of hymn. Such fury may be a purging force. Certainly no piece of writing has yet made more vivid the last few ominous years for Britain: "Their world was passing away-London, that great city. None could revive it, none stay the process of disintegration. Feet treading, found no foothold; arms reaching, no guiding wall or comforting pillar found; mind thinking, nothing grasped. All was dissolving. Lost! lost! in the darkness of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The British | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Puncture-proof tanks are not the only reason intact German ships are scarce in Britain. No amount of buckskin and raw rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Rubber and Buckskin | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Navy, exchanged his everyday toupee for a luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped upon Hunding's dining-room table like a tomcat after a mouse. His singing, less athletic than his jumps, was fresh and youthful, with less of the buzz saw than most run-of-the-mill German-style tenoring. His semaphoric acting bore witness to his Navy training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Singers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Clarkmen scored on a sleeper play when Buzz West, erstwhile Minnesota menace, prostrated himself near the ladies' gallery, only to rise again, much to everyone's surprise, and run for a touchdown with a contented smile and, incidentally, the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON EDITORS WIN OVER "PRINCE" IN TOUCH FOOTBALL | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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