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...Japanese take Singapore and Burma and advance on India, the obvious Axis strategy will be for Hitler to descend on India from the west. Between Germany and India lie Suez, Turkey and the Middle East with its oil. For such prizes Hitler might sacrifice more ground in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Initiative | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...puny soldier of 25, whose father had been a "strong man" and wrestled with a Russian bear and whose mother had pampered him. He fought in France, did bravely in Norway until he was blown into a cellar; then he developed night blindness. His ambition: to descend in a parachute in the center of Berlin and wreck buildings. If Britain should be invaded, he plans to kill his whole family, including his stepfather, "to prevent them from being raped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Carrots Are Not Enough | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...wartime public sentiment can be stirred and public thinking informed only by something unfavorably known as "propaganda," the program was propaganda. Yet its theatrics, its sentimentality, its moments of bad taste were not products of war but of imperfect art. It did not descend to cheap and spurious jingoism. And it told a truth in telling, out of the mouths of the imagined People, why and when the Bill of Rights was written, what it says, and what it means as an American Charter promising no deprivation of life or property except by due process of law-a conception notably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: American Charter | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...Nanny," as the famous movie star is known affectionately to her Harvard public, was elected an honorary editor of the literary publication early this fall, and threatened at that time to descend on Cambridge. Later a report was spread that she would not arrive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.P. SAYS SHERIDAN ADVOCATE GUEST | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

Prevented from bathing by a ghastly South Hadley drought a thousand comely if dirty Mount Holyoke co-eds are expected to descend on Cambridge this week to accept the invitation proffered by the CRIMSON last night to "Share Our Showers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO HELP HOLYOKE TO H2O | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

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