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Last week, Adolf Hitler corrected George Marshall's estimates. Military arithmetic, which a month ago was too much for the U. S. to add up without getting taxpayers' cramp, suddenly became kindergarten stuff. Along with the arithmetic went the military thinking which produced such piffling ciphers as $279,000,000. Overnight, the pleasant doings in Louisiana became old-fashioned non sense. Against Europe's total war, the U. S. Army looked like a few nice boys with BB guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Recently six-year-old Akihito's day has begun at 6:30 a.m., when he rises to meditate on his ancestors and bow to photographs of his parents. Then he romps all day in the Palace grounds. Once a fortnight he attends the peers' kindergarten, where he outbellows all his little comrades in patriotic songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Son of Son of Sun | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...champion: the U. S. badminton championship; for the second successive year; smashing onetime (1937-38) Titleholder Walter Kramer of Detroit in the final, 15-4, 15-4; at Seattle. Another young Californian, Evelyn Boldrick of San Diego, won the women's singles-making California look like the future kindergarten for badminton as well as tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards, two Hotzes, Lorraine Stockman, Frances Mc-Namer, Bertilla Loventinsky and Doris Augustine. Total: 13 girls five boys. Ages: 4 to 14. Grades: primer (kindergarten) to seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Some are in the kindergarten stage and others are extremely advanced; all are serious in their work. The difficulties of a Chinese studying German in a class conducted in English are terrific," Cloud points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Use of English Committee Flooded by Foreigners With Language Problems | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

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