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...began pounding Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in El Alamein, the Partisans of Bosanska Krajina moved northward down the jagged valleys of the Dinarian Alps to the outskirts of the Zagreb basin in Croatia. From the Valebit Mountains in Dalmatia a second force, called the Partisans of Lika, moved to meet them. From the northeast came a third army of Croat irregulars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Mihailovich Eclipsed | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...Manhattan it was revealed that since last autumn Nikola Tesla, 80, eccentric, Lika-born electrical inventor, had been paying Western Union to send a messenger boy to the Public Library promenade twice daily, scatter 5 Ib. of corn for the pigeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Heeza hones' man," said Mike, waving his arms widely. "Joost lika Babe Ruth. Some time hita ball; some time strike out. Just do his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1933 | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...Joost Lika Babe Ruth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1933 | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...cold ta be out now. I no lika dis weather. I stay home mosta da time, but today, she be warm, so I go out. Mosta da time stay home three months in cold weather smokka ma pipe. No mon' in da winter. Well, just lettle, mebbery," and Joe chuckled as he stooped on all fours to pick up a penny tossed under his wagon by a Mt. Auburn Street resident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joe the Organ-Grinder Admits Superior Eleemosynary Spirit in Girls--His Horse's Left Hind Foot Once a Target | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

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