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...MacLeod Hodgson, 70; 2) Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare,* 62. Said Sir Robert at his small wooden desk at the Ministry of Information: "They think we are interfering old fogies, but we are not. Our job is to see that stories are not cabled that are likely to stir up discord between the Allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship Takes Anzio | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...greatest victory in Russia was the victory of Moscow (see p. 18). Already retreating on the fighting front, Adolf Hitler and the Wehrmacht lost their last hope of salvage through Allied discord, their last chance that the Red Army might forgo the complete defeat of the German armies in the east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Road Leads Backward | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...left hand with four fingers on top, look his adversary straight in the eye, bring the blade of his weapon up before his right eye, then sweep it down and to the right. The blade, says Nadi, must whistle through the air, must under no circumstances commit the "frightful discord" of striking the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swordsman | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...task force a full-fledged air force. Its designation: the Fourteenth.* The order took the China Air Task Force from under the control of Brigadier General Bissell, commander of the Tenth (India). Thus ended a jarring relationship between him and Chennault which had struck many a dangerous spark of discord (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Fourteenth | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...Consonance and dissonance (whose technical explanation is lengthy) are not to be confused with what laymen generally refer to as "harmony" and "discord." The combinations ordinarily called "harmony" include both consonances and dissonances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musician, Heal Thyself | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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