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Chinese terrain like so many drops of ink spilled on a tremendous blotter, Japan was far less able either to harass Russia or to challenge Britain and France in southeastern Asia. The great two-year-old undeclared war has thus acted as a wet blanket on the smoldering fires of the European continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Worst of the problem children which harass a college curriculum are the survey courses, and at Harvard they are holy terrors. Through the years they have constantly grown until today they tend, because of their own unmanageable hugeness, to fall apart into disunified sections whose only point of similarity is subject material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FITTING THE MOULD | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...more than two years they lived in rebel territory, organizing the peasants to blow up trains, block roads, out communications, and harass rightist front lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two American Fighters in Spanish War Speak Tonight | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

...Universal). Confronted with the task of making a picture in which W. C. Fields is the star, most Hollywood producers harass themselves and Mr. Fields by trying to chivy him into playing the part written for him, instead of letting him alone in his own classic interpretation of W. C. Fields. In this case, Producer Lester Cowan shrewdly devised a new technique. Instead of paying his stars a salary, he persuaded them to work on a profit-sharing basis, had Fields write his own story and let matters take their course. The result was that the shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...illegal Irish Republican Army, determined to harass Great Britain into giving the six provinces of Northern Ireland to Eire, intensified its underground terrorist activities last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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