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...Grecian disaster or Cretan fiasco to swell her shipping losses to the figures of April and May. Nevertheless June was 15% better than the monthly average since the Battle of the Atlantic began in earnest in June 1940. Why, when things were looking up, did the British go mum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: 15% Better than Average | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...authors of The Hut-Sut Song-to whose bouncing tune the lyrics of Hot Shot Dawson can easily be sung-last week kept silent as soo-it, mum as a rillerah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot Shot and Hut-Sut | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...think the matter out. After a suitable interval you tap on the floor with your foot again, this time crescendo, pick up the phone, and (a) gripping the nose as before: 'I'm sorry, the doctor isn't in at present. Can I take a message, Mum?' or (b) in your own voice: 'Hullo, Jones, about that match on Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shameful Deception | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Unlike the British, who talked frankly about air raids on their cities, the Germans have been mum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: Sweeps and Swats | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Thriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prisoners & Fugitives | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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