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...distant days, not only distant but prosaic; but these young men are going forth every morning, going forth holding in their hands an instrument of colossal shattering power, of whom it may be said that every morn brought forth a noble chance and every chance brought forth a noble deed. These young men deserve our gratitude, as all brave men who in so many ways and so many occasions are ready and will continue to be ready to give their life and their all to their native land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British War Report: Winston Churchill to Commons | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Character isolated by a deed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Injustice!" The new budget was in deed generally popular but a few out spoken Conservative, Liberal and Labor critics attacked the Chancellor for pro posing to spend "only 52%" of the British national income at a time when both France and Germany are spending more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Debts and Taxes | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Arthur Stratton of Clinton, Mass., ambulance driver on muddy French war roads, went France's first World War II decoration for bravery by an American volunteer. His award: Croix de Guerre with palm. His deed: evacuation of badly wounded troops on the Western Front under machine-gun cross fire, heavy artillery bombardment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...socialite sense, the foulest deed Dick Whitney ever did was to steal $105,184 in securities from the safe-deposit box of the swanky New York Yacht Club, of which he was treasurer. Last week his old club, anxious to recoup, filed suit for all he had embezzled, plus interest, against a less exclusive, more expensive club, the New York Stock Exchange. Ground for the suit, had the Exchange exposed its onetime president sooner, it might have prevented the yacht club theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Yacht Club's Revenge | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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