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...year-old Justice really expected to keep his date, he was going about it in somewhat haphazard fashion. When he went off this week to Fort Banning, Ga., he was still a member of the Supreme Court, from which he had not yet resigned, or been given a leave of absence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Justice Has a Date | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...opposite page, alas, we see a dreary, lamentable series of failures, nearly all avoidable and almost entirely due to bad strategy and haphazard planning at the top. Churchill, the brilliant rhetorician, Churchill, the astute politician, is akin in spirit to the fabled comedian who eats his heart out longing to star in tragic roles. He has always fancied himself in a martial capacity, for which his particular brilliant attainments are unsuited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Right Bower | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Reindeer and horses still pulled sleighs through the haphazard streets of Murmansk. From that fine, deep-water Arctic harbor all the way to Leningrad, 650 miles south, winter snows still blanketed the land. Moving across the solidly frozen earth of the Karelian Isthmus, the Red Army smashed again & again at the tough Finnish defenders, drove a trio of wedges into the Finnish lines despite desperate tank and infantry counterattacks. East of beleaguered Leningrad Red troops lately transported from Siberia hacked away at Finnish positions on the Aunus Isthmus between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Urgency In the Snow | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...week ago the Drama Critics Circle assembled to award their prize to the best American drama of the past year. After haphazard balloting, during which only six of the seventeen critics bothered to vote, no decision was reached and the award was cancelled. Critics agreed in calling this the worst season in the history of the American dram...

Author: By Jervis B. Mcmechan, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 5/1/1942 | See Source »

First, the bad weather, then the several postponements, and finally yesterday's Mil Sci drill made the meet a very haphazard affair. Drawing a picture of the team's future was well-nigh hopeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather, Mil Sci Makes Sizing Up Of Trackmen Hard | 4/14/1942 | See Source »

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