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War of Words. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill are the two men alive in the world today who best understand the power of words as weapons of warfare. Their techniques are different. Hitler uses words as poison gas; Churchill uses them as a broadsword. Yet he, too, can be cunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Man of the Year | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

North West Mounted Police (Paramount) is a movie in the grand style-God's own biggest trees and mountains for props and backdrops; stanch courage and lofty aims among the good people; cunning and treachery lurking within the sinister forces; the ominous note of doom finally stifled by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

These Spaniards know they may be killed. Jordan senses it when he hears the orders. The general senses it when he gives them. So does Pablo, the pig-eyed, cunning guerrilla leader, when Jordan asks his help. So does Pilar, his big, ugly, wise, foul-mouthed wife. Pilar is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in Spain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

He often encountered lions' nests hidden in tall grass while plowing the wild virgin land, and the angry beasts sent natives and oxen running in all directions. Lions showed the utmost cunning in discovering and outwitting his tricks to prevent them from preying on the domestic animals.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLIRTING WITH DEATH JUST ROUTINE IN LIFE OF AFRICAN ADVENTURER | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

Rather than waste Buck Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe against Cleveland's Boy Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vegetable Plate | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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