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...close with one more Welcome? Glad to meet Professor De Haas, the knockout lecture, who really puts his audience in the mood for a helluva good week...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: Straight Dope | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...chief hostess, Mrs. Giard, who's mad at me for reading the funnies while dancing... The only unpopular guy there was somebody named Paul Jones who seemed to lose friends and alienate people after 2300 and two drinks with the same woman. At least Ruby Newman had a helluva good time...

Author: By Midshipman M. J. roth, | Title: Midshipmen-- | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

...ship got the works. The first attack came from on top. Sir, those boys were good. Our .50 calibers were hosing tracers into them and there was a helluva din. First thing I felt was an awful jolt on the control column. One of those German boys had plunked two cannon shells into the elevators and punched holes in the fabric big enough for a man to jump through. From then on the captain and I had to brace our feet against the column. That old ship wanted only to climb but we wanted to get down as fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Story of a Raid | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...them, a seaman said, and it was hopeless to try to get them out. The telephones were still working. Somebody called down: "Do you know what kinda fix you're in?" "Sure," they called back: "We know you can't get us out, but we got a helluva good acey-deucey game goin' down here right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Fightingest Ship | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...cannot see ahead, Levy told how tanks were stopped in Madrid by blankets hung across the streets. Fearing that the blankets might conceal an anti-tank gun or a tank trap, the tanks stood off and punched holes in them with one inch shells, and "you can punch a helluva lot of one-inch holes, in a blanket," he said. "A man with hand grenades could beat a tank easily at close range and in such cramped quarters," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVY, COMMANDOS' TEACHER, TALKS ON GUERILLA WARFARE | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

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