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...Donnell, where the death rate among captives had been as high as 250 a day; the filthy and vermin-ridden compound at Pangatian, where every foot of ground finally was a filled-in latrine; the diet of rice, sweet potatoes, radish tops, "pigweed," fish powder; the beatings with hardwood sticks; their friends who had died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: From the Grave | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...period chair was safe during leapfrog sessions. A dappled pony clumped through the children's bedrooms, and was forever being backed in & out of the White House elevator by one or all of Teddy's four sons and two daughters. The youngsters roller skated on the shiny hardwood floors, burrowed through attics and ceilings, wobbled all over the White House on stilts. This was the era of the Strenuous Life, and the Roosevelt children lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Young Teddy | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Germans fortified its approaches with steel, timber, concrete. They buried old tanks, to serve as pill boxes. They strung out miles of barbed wire, sowed the swamps with mines. They had hoped to stay in Gorodok a long, long time: the dugouts were large; the officers' quarters had hardwood floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Bagramian's Progress | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...Governorship of Georgia to stocky, ambitious Ellis Gibbs Arnall. With his coat collar turned up, his owl eyes staring straight ahead, he sat glumly on the platform throughout Arnall's inauguration; when the ceremonies were over he refused to shake hands, stomped off to his home in the hardwood swamps of Telfair County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. at War: Gene's Exit | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...members include: W. D. Brown '46, W. H. Bozman '46, L. E. Cooke '44, W. W. Dunn '46, R. F. Hardwood '44, G. R. Hooper '45, J. G. Murphy '46, B. Nugent 46, D. G. Ofsthun '46, C. J. Peck '45, S. E. Stuart 2nd '45, P. Troen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Council Names Twelve as Members | 11/25/1942 | See Source »

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