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...committee of deputies visits quiet Verdun. In a scene of delicate comedy they are given the run-around by officious officers, reflect dazedly afterwards that if the famed Citadel of Verdun really only contains four field pieces . . . perhaps they should have insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vols. XV & XVI | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...shows a Salvation Army "citadel" with doors marked MEN and WOMEN. Every time an actor starts for one, the crowd shouts: "Wrong door, wrong door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight the British Lion, which since World War II began has been trying to roar like an airplane engine, took off with a movie glorifying Britain's air defenses. It was called The Lion Has Wings. Conceived by Ian Dalrymple, who scripted The Citadel, edited by American William Hornbeck, produced by Alexander Korda at his Denham lot in twelve crowded days and nights, Britain's first propaganda film of World War II was shown first to the Ministry of Information and the censors. Fearful of disclosing war secrets, they slashed out vast footage, mostly shots of balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Air Lion | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Harvard 7Army 6 Yale 14 Brown 10 Princeton 13 Dartmouth 7 Tulane 13 Alabama 0 Holy Cross 14 Temple 0 Boston College 12 Detroit 7 Cincinnati 14 Boston University 6 Cornell 14 Colgate 0 Tennessee 33 Citadel 0 Northwestern 13 Purdue 7 Carnegie Tech 7 Pittsburgh 0 Minnesota 14 Michigan 13 Ohio State 51 Chicago 0 U.S.C. 14 Stanford 0 Texas Aggies 14 South'n M'th'dist 10 Illinois 7 Wisconsin 0 Pennsylvania 20 Penn State 0 North Carolina 26 Davidson 7 Notre Dame 14 Iowa 13 Kontucky 14 Georgla Tech 7 Missouri 19 N.Y.U. 7 Navy 6 Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Scores | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...wall keeps things in, as well as out. With that in mind, the first emergency conference of the Western Hemisphere's nations moved swiftly to build within that wall not only a "citadel of democracy" but a joint economy. With overseas markets wiped out overnight or too dangerous to reach, the 21 representatives agreed to establish in Washington for the duration of the war a committee empowered to act rapidly in all emergencies to lessen the war's effects in the Western Hemisphere-and, more significantly, to give counsel to their Governments on joint means of stabilizing currencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Sea Wall | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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