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...employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside of their frontiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and permanent system of general security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential. They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 8 Points v. 14 | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...best thing in the world for me." He felt he had to do a big job "to prove to his critics and himself that he wasn't going soft." He has no messianic complex. Like all Cronin novels, The Keys of the Kingdom was written "to lighten, not to enlighten the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodness Made Readable | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Last winter it was reported that Backer Marshall Field had set May 1 as the deadline for PM to succeed, but before May 1 he put up another $500,000 to keep PM going four months longer. As a byproduct the new weekly would lighten the burden of PM's $22,000-a-week editorial costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: PM's Little Brother | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...individual prodigies have shown up to lighten Peterson's cares. The tanklings hold their own, instead, as a solid, well-balanced aggregation. This type of team, explained Peterson, may be beaten by a spectacular squad, but in the long run will give more to future Varsities...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

...Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead. He dropped one bomb to lighten the plane, had no chance to release another. On a desolate peak near Danilovgrad, in neutral Yugoslavia, Ralph Barnes died in action with three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Year of War | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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