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Iron mines had either been blown up or flooded. In the old Artem mine, 500 Russian workers hid. When the Germans discovered the hideout, they flung hand grenades in but would not descend. Moscow said another mine was the common grave of 17,000 executed civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Krivoi Rog | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...coming up the steps. She made them stay indoors all day. The family had a gymnasium, fitted up for the boys over the stable, hired an instructor to teach them gymnastics. The little Hewitts cut trap doors through the floor of their gymnasium to make a secret hideout. When the police called, as they often did, Mrs. Hewitt used to direct them to the gymnasium, knowing that the cops would never find the boys. They never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Machine Age of Innocence | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...their flashlights around the paper-littered attics over the House chamber, peered under every seat in the chamber itself, combed the cloakrooms, including telephone booths, explored the Speaker's office, the Appropriations Committee rooms, the restaurant, the Sergeant at Arms' office and the Speaker's private hideout, neglected not even the men's and women's toilets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Answer | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...bars are down. Our brave fighters have been assassinated for doing their duty. Why not be as realistic as the Japanese? My feeling is that the main target for bombs-or shells-should be the chancellery in Berlin, the Mikado's palace in Tokyo, Hitler's hideout at Berchtesgaden, the government buildings in Berlin and Tokyo . . . where the brains are! To my mind, eradicating the motivating source is more important than destroying the instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...campus doc boils in and sights her prey. She pulls the snatch and walks it to her hideout, but some prof at Harvard Med wants his foetus back. "It's my baby," says campus doc, "It's ours and it ain't a baby yet," say jokers. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pass the Foetus, Doctor, We Are Off to Wellesley Hills | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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