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...behind a wall. Ernie, who was talking to a couple of them, kept standing and kept his hands in his pockets. I watched his face as he went down the street and he was scared all right. A little later we got mixed up in a tank-v.-pillbox duel and the pillbox knocked the tank out right outside of the house where we were. I said, "Let's get out of here," and Ernie said, "O.K., you get a start and then I'll follow you." I ran about 25 yards, didn't see Ernie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ernie Pyle's War | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...this phenomenon two veterans too ill for military service are chiefly responsible. So far this year the duel between Jug McSpaden (35, sinus) and Byron Nelson (32, hemophilia) is the longest stretch of consistently great golf in almost half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boom on the Links | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Named for France's Evariste Galois, ranked among the 25 greatest mathematicians in history, who developed the theory of groups and algebraic equations before dying in a duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mathematics for Mits | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Vassar has challenged the Harvard Debating Council to a duel of words for this spring, and a match with the renowned women's college will probably be held around Easter time, officials of the club announced last night. Plans are also being made to continue the annual triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton debating series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VASSAR MEETS FORENSIC TEAM | 3/7/1944 | See Source »

...Characters of every description-code experts, secret agents, odd icy blondes, crumbs of European aristocracy" keep coming in to see him all the time-partly because our just-launched Scandinavian Edition has focused so much attention on TIME and partly because Scott's latest book (Duel for Europe) has become a Swedish bestseller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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