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...eight weeks of continuous bombing of London, last week was the lightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Diffusion | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Every day there were awful atrocities The lightest of the punishments inflicted was hanging head downwards for hours and 50 lashes on the soles of the feet." Not the account of a Nazi prison camp, but just one of the many experiences that make the life of Haratune Tashjian, a rug-dealer on the Square, read like a book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armenian Escaped Massacre by Hiding Among 10,000 Corpses and Playing Dead for Four Days | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

...below zero F., and the outer planets-Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto-are even colder, which eliminates them as harborers of life. Moreover the atmospheres of the big planets contain great quantities of ammonia and methane, which are poisonous to earthly organisms. These substances are rich in hydrogen, lightest of gases and hence the most likely to escape from a planet's gravitational pull. The big planets are massive enough still to retain most of their original hydrogen, hence the ammonia and methane. The young earth locked up some useful hydrogen in water vapor and fortunately lost most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life Beyond Earth? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Sophomore last year he ran second to Broberg in points scored. He stands six feet one and at 173 pounds is one of the lightest players on the team...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Giant Cornell Hoopsters Favored in Tilt Here Tonight | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

...only one warship last week suffered: the British destroyer Viscount reportedly hit a mine. Meanwhile the week's total tonnage sunk (15,292) was the second lightest of the war to date. The week's biggest sea news was announced officially by the French Admiralty: that Germany is constructing a fleet of 150-ton submarines, which can be turned out much faster than 500-to 740-ton U-boats, and will require only 20 officers & men instead of 35 to 40. These new ships, said France, would be able to cruise only four or five days, but there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Sinkings of the Week | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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