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...texture of a polar bear's pelt. Out of these unfathomable, and therefore vast, spaces of frozen fur, of white and yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...
...heavy side, to be sure, but nothing out of the ordinary. They heaved it onto a hand-truck and dumped it in the storeroom. Shortly after midnight, strange things began to happen. A freight-handler saw the box move. Its lid lifted slowly and startled eyes glinted in the gloom. American Overseas Airlines Official William Waring investigated. "I opened the box," he told reporters later, "and saw a pair of eyes and some hair. Then she stepped out-no shirt...
...There is solid agreement," reported TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin last week, "that Chen has done a notable job of bucking morale and tightening defenses. The midsummer gloom which had Manchuria all but lost to Nationalist China has noticeably lightened...
...been expedient, when the Labor Government was frittering away the U.S. loan, to minimize Sir Stafford Cripps's cries of trouble ahead by calling him Cassandra. But Sir Stafford had known the score all along, and in the gloom of crisis last week, it was Cassandra who had to stand up and announce the score to the British people. It was a grim score...
This year's weather was as bad as any since the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. No rain had fallen, to speak of, all summer. But last week, instead of gloom, there was jubilation in the short-grass country. A $12,000,000 federal reclamation project was formally opened, promising an end, at last, to floods and drought for 50,000 acres of prairie farmland...