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Said the Secretary, sharply: "A lot of preliminary dispositions are going on-but no pitched battles of any kind as yet. Any assumption that last night's communique indicated a tremendous battle in progress is an incorrect assumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How Japs Fight | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...demonstrated how to avoid and neutralize booby traps left by the enemy. Carefully they carried out a mop-up raid on "Führerville," which the engineers had contrived from old lumber. Two of them imitated weary soldiers trying to find a place to rest, did all of the incorrect things. One picked up a pair of gloves. An explosion followed. The same happened when they set foot on the doorstep, opened a door, shut a window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - At Both Ends | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

This is quite incorrect. The New York Times publishes very much more foreign news than La Prensa of Buenos Aires. As a matter of fact, for the past six months, by mutual agreement, La Prensa and La Nation have been confining their foreign news to ten columns. The New York Times runs around 30 columns of foreign news daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Library officials are willing to open Boylston after hour exams if it is proven necessary. But they have no reason to keep it closed now. This cautious action will undoubtedly insure that a lot of exam answers are incorrect. It would be interesting to see campstools in Widener's halls, but lights in Boylston would be more satisfying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Lag | 10/30/1942 | See Source »

...Axis claims were extravagant. Berlin later admitted that the report about the Wasp was incorrect. But the British admitted the loss of the new 9,400-ton heavy cruiser Manchester. They also admitted the torpedoing of the Eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Not Without Loss | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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