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...score of newsmen and foreign diplomats. One by one the bombers buzzed past the target at about 2,500 ft. and laid their eggs. At the sixth pass, an aged officer put his head in his hands and wept, as the "unsinkable" German battleship Ostfriesland sank with a glug heard round the world-and echoed violently in military history from that day to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...their bodies, like some shaggy dogs. They simply laid down on the ground when night came. They were bloodthirsty. They liked to drink the warm blood of animals they killed, as you would a glass of milk. They talked to each other with some sort of grunts-umfa umfa-glug glug." Thus did a Perth Amboy, N. J. public school teacher read last week to her sixth grade pupils. One little girl was immeasurably shocked & revolted, went home and told her father. He, Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, vigorous young Lutheran minister, bounced off to a Kiwanis Club luncheon, read passages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Umfa Umfa, Glug Glug | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug," mused the cannibals, "glug, glug." The chances were that the next big bee that might happen along would be well received, even if he alighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Brazil | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...Glug," "glug, glug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: May 11, 1925 | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

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