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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look like big chocolate bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Camouflage | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...uncertainty: the whimsical nature of events as they unravel from the Führer's haunted mind. Even heads of governments nowconsult the writings of journalists like Pertinax, Augur, Tabouis, who are reputed to have secret sources of knowledge about things to come. But common men look for guidance where they have always found it: in the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Augurs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Chamberlain said last summer: "Can we look forward to the future with any confidence? ... I think I should advise you to go and consult Old Moore, because he is quite as likely to be right as I am." Old Moore's Almanack has appeared every year since 1697. Only the author and publishers know who Old Moore is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Augurs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Regardless of what your trouble may be, you can look the world in the face; solve all your problems; get what you want and fear no man or circumstance. Your happiness and success demand that you print your name clearly and send it to Rev. Charles P. Colbert, Detroit, Mich., 545 Owen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Oil | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...primary attitude of the college generation of today is, in a way, altered from that of its 1914 predecessor. So Mr. MacLeish tells us. We do not look upon this conflagration as a "sea at the end of time." Rather we look upon it as the prelude to a renewed and vigorous attack on the many problems of advancing civilization. From our point of view, this is a war to continue civilization. It becomes of the utmost necessity, thus, that once the war is over, we have many well-educated men in a position to help in building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCHOLAR'S CALL TO ARMS | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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