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...been, it would soon out-savage all that had gone before. All along the 1,200-mile front, the certain threat of a new and deadlier battle, to begin with the drying of the ground, hung like the storm cloud of a hurricane's second and deadliest phase. Against its break, Russians slashed deep into Nazi positions. Nazis hung grimly to what they had been ordered to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: End and Beginning | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...deadliest spring offensive could hardly terrify people who have lost so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Losers | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...this week Douglas MacArthur well knew that he was on the threshold of his deadliest test yet. Winston Churchill's announcement of Singapore's fall was not 24 hours old when a terse Philippine communiqué revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Lull, Attack, Lull | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Beneath the earth's seas moved hundreds of the deadliest craft ever devised: perhaps 500 submarines playing their part in the greatest naval war in history. Manned by the picked men of seven navies, they lay in wait for the kill from the South China Sea to the California Coast, from Long Island to Malaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lesson from the Shark | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...deadliest tribes on the Archipelago, the Ifugao, have a very moral code and an extremely complicated system of justice," he explains. "Their medicine men, because they have no system of writing with which to preserve the rich mythology of the race, rely on their memories and can quote their father's teachings for weeks without running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTHROPOLOGIST CLAIMS WILD MEN CIVILIZED AS STUDENTS | 12/5/1941 | See Source »

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