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...cub lieutenant, he had the nerve to criticize British bombing practices in 1917-18, urge the adoption of a technique which is proving itself in World War II: bombing aimed primarily at bases, rather than at such scattered targets as submarines at sea. He also preached a principle of air war which is still fundamental with him: that big bombers win the wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: New Man | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed in his nostrils (he just has a cold) ; a leper from the Capuchin colony outside the walls; a crisp Italian officer in a fever of hurry and worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Key Towns | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Skip Stahley's Yardling hoopmen ran into a sharp-shooting Yale cub outfit in the Indoor Athletic Building preliminary Saturday night and came out on the short end of a 49 to 33 count. The giant Elis, led by a stubby guard named Kearney, shot the Crimson five dizzy in the first half and were able to coast to victory in the second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE FRESHMEN DEFEAT YARDLING FIVE 49 to 33 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

Charlie Cottar was the first man to chew cut plug in East Africa. It awed the natives. So did his exploits as a hunter. He kicked a water buffalo in the rump to make it face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub home and raised it as a pet. When the leopard grew up he took it with him on hunting trips. It would follow him like a Scottie. One night he woke up in his tent with a leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Okie in Africa | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...undefeated Crimson Freshmen will meet an unusually strong Bruin Cub outfit in a 7:30 o'clock curtain raiser...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: FAVORED MERMEN SEEK REVENGE FOR '39 DEFEAT BY BROWN IN TONIGHT'S MEET | 1/15/1941 | See Source »

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