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...Germans have known for some time that this was Tito's headquarters. A few weeks ago 15 German Stukas dive-bombed the lofty crag in full daylight with no more effect than fleabites on a bull's skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TITO'S YUGOSLAVIA | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Problem of Evil. For Herriman's creatures, neither animal nor human, the scratchy, tersely subtle drawing, the hog-Elizabethan talk and supralunar world of Krazy Kat were entirely his own - a new private universe of fantasy, irony, weird characterization, odd beauty. It looks as simple as daylight, this illimitably varied, unchanging little comedy about the noble-souled, loony, amorous Kat who loves to have his bean creased by the brick that malicious Ignatz Mouse loves to throw, while Dogberryish Offisa Pupp, the stolidly distraught embodiment of the Law, tries, and forever fails, to stop the brick. The predicament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Among the Unlimitless Etha | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Like a badly mauled army in the field, the Luftwaffe has figuratively shortened its line by retreating-first by virtually surrendering the air over France, again by refusing daylight combat on days of poor weather and overcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Clear Track to Berlin | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...years had Vesuvius erupted so violently. In Bari, 130 miles across the Italian boot, daylight darkened with dust, householders turned on lights, chickens went to roost. In the Bay of Naples, shipmasters worried lest quake and tidal wave follow the eruption. Along the road to Salerno, peasants wore metal pots on their heads to ward off falling cinders; ashes 18 inches deep blocked traffic, caved in roofs. But nowhere was the earth's inner wrath more terrible than high on the mountain's scarred slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Inner Wrath | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...With these words of welcome a few admonitions and suggestions are called for. You new men will find Boston a very peculiar place. If you're the conservative or stay-at-home type, you might even call Boston "quaint." Boston is a place where civilization, faintly evident during the daylight hours, flares up for the few short twilight hours, and disappears promptly at 2400, Saturday night in particular...

Author: By Midn. E. T. long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 3/31/1944 | See Source »

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