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...That Goddam Target." It was dusk. The sea barely rippled, faded from sight and we were alone in the battleship greyness. It was censorable degrees below zero and we had reached censorable heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MISSION TO SOUSSE | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Tools For Killing. Today I spoke with one wounded infantryman from Milwaukee. "I never knew there were so many goddam machine guns in all the world," he said. These pockets cannot be bypassed because of the neck-deep swamps and sucking mud; they must be assaulted, at whatever cost, and destroyed one by one. The artillery is helping, including American 105-mm. howitzers which were flown into action. But many of the Japanese foxholes are too deep and too cleverly contrived to be wiped out even by the terrific barrages which pour in tons of high explosives each day & night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WAR IN THE PACIFIC: War in the Papuan Jungles | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...Garfield, where he told Senator Claude Pepper's labor subcommittee that he and his fellow shipyard doctors had been "threatened." Henry Kaiser rushed to Dr. Garfield's aid, bumped heads with Dr. Fishbein. Said Clark County's Dr. Harrison last week: "It's a goddam misstatement that Garfield was 'threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fishbein's Kaiser | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Many a degree holder looks upon his sheepskin as symbol of his success in mastering all the ideas of his profession. "According to the Gibbsian philosophy, 'he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes him.'" Franklin, Edison, the Wright Bros, held no degrees [except honorary] in their professions, "curiously enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...horseflesh. Said a member of his family: "He always suspects they're ready to bite him." In the same way he is leary of success. When a man begins to think of himself as successful, according to the Gibbsian philosophy, "he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Technological Revolutionist | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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