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Strategically, however, the Allies lost a chance to win bases from which they could carry the war to Germany's heart. And in surrendering those bases to Germany they exposed the north of the British Isles to closer, fiercer attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Balance on Norway | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...night stand to one-night stand in the Midwest, as the blizzards blow, the fevers rise and the tempers explode one by one. By the time the show goes bust Bethel Merriday has proved herself a dependable actress, has fallen out of love with Andy, in love with a fiercer young actor from whose pillow she rises to make the coffee as ... the . . . curtain . . . falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Work | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...which annoyed Adolf Hitler, who last week called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Oh, Mother! | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...novelist describe a hurricane at sea and straightway critics raise a hue because his hurricane is a pale imitation of the one Joseph Conrad described 35 years ago in Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trick Hurricane | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...truly, after the next war, let the winner take over the beaten country and keep it down. If popular opinion gets strong, and riots start, shoot down a couple of thousand of the natives. If that makes the riots even fiercer, shoot down thousands more. Sooner or later they'll get used to subservience, and then wars with that particular country, whether it be Great Britain, France, Italy, or Germany again, will be no more. SATAN

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horns and Claws | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

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