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...Germans took it with surly indignation. No longer did the Nazis promise five-for-one, or 100-to-1 retaliation. Their only answer was the "Baedeker raids" (see p. 26). The British, for once in the position where they could dish it out, made no more "Britain-can-take-it" talk. Only one newspaper called the bombing of York "wanton." The rest unemotionally reported "York suffered heavy bombing -," let it go at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Second Front in the Air | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...20th Century-Fox) is the kind of bright, tuneful, lighthearted musical that was once Broadway's dish. It has the authentic Tin-Pan Alley touch-gilded by the nostalgic charm of the nicely naughty '90s. It also has so many other good things that it is a rare cinema treat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...accord with the demand that the University Dining Halls cut their sugar consumption in half immediately, beginning this morning one teaspoonful of sugar will be the maximum allowable for any one dish, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, announced yesterday. All sugar bowls are to be removed from the tables, and the desired sweetening will be put on in the kitchens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINING ROOMS REDUCE SUGAR CONSUMPTION | 4/30/1942 | See Source »

...delightful and implausible tale of intrigue, spies, Gestapo and such, moulded about the tragic downfall of Poland in 1939. Like Charlie Chaplin's ill-fated "The Great Dictator" its humor is based on ridiculing Hitler and the overly efficient machinations of the Gestapo. Whether the current film is your dish or not depends upon your ability to laugh at situations founded on material which is essentially tragedy, such as the bombing of Warsaw...

Author: By J. B Mcm., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...working out the plan to keep the Army abreast of changing trends throughout the world, and to school our enlisted youth in the true value of our challenged democracy, the War Department has engaged over 150 well-known speakers, including William L. Shirer and Hallett Abend, to dish out the uncensored facts to buck privates. Already, over 350,000 pamphlets and four tons of maps are ready for shipment to training centers. And less recently, Army posts have been introduced to a new orientation course. It includes 15 fifty-minute lectures on world events leading up to Pearl Harbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Battle Won | 2/14/1942 | See Source »

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