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...mighty people. . . . Never was seen a more inspiring example of a people infused with the power of an idea. The power of this idea is the one thing that the master mind of the master race did not reckon with; and it is the one thing that can lick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Paper Warriors | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...they can lick themselves, "says their instructor, "they can lick the Germans and Japs. I don't want any kid from Medford High School bellyaching, committing suicide or getting sent to the garbage detail when he goes into the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mayhem in Medford | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Buzz Wagner could lick the Japs: he had seven planes to his credit in aerial combat, and he had probably destroyed 50 more on the ground. But no man can lick fickle luck. Last week, in a solitary routine flight between Eglin Field, Fla. and Maxwell Field, Ala., Lieut. Colonel Boyd D. Wagner, at 26 the youngest officer of his rank, was missing. It was just about a year after the U.S. had first heard of Buzz Wagner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Death of the Nonpareil | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...need a buildup, but one look is reassuring. Director Raoul Walsh and Actor Bond have recreated him to the life. In training camps he alternately obliterates sparing partners and barrels of beer; childern follow him in the streets and in barroms strong men quail when he roars: "I can lick any man in the world." Partician Miss Smith feels his biceps and nearly swoons with delight. Even though Director Walsh and Gentleman Jim make a monkey out of him in the ring, his gymnasial fragrance lingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 14, 1942 | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...Massillon High; thereby breaking a winning streak of 52 games; before a crowd of 22,000; at Massillon, Ohio. Same day, ex-Massillon Coach Paul Brown, who made the Massillon Tigers into the country's most famed scholastic eleven (TIME, Nov. 2), saw his Ohio State University footballers lick Michigan, 21-to-7, for the Western Conference ("Big Ten") championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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