Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot. One, a civilian named Victor Marin, had been tortured all night to make him tell the names of his associates. He did not break down. When taken out for execution, both arms were broken, one eye gouged out, one shoulder dislocated, one knee smashed, his hand a bloody pulp. Asked a priest: "Victor, are you afraid of death?" "No, Father," he replied, "it is my body which trembles, not my spirit...
...among U.S. inventors as a bottomless well of incredible notions. For more than 30 years fantasies have come in such profusion from his brain that there is hardly a modern invention he cannot claim to have anticipated. The father of pseudo-scientific fiction, he has started a number of pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, etc. As a radio magazine publisher, he has given laboratory workers some suggestive ideas. Gernsback himself has patented some 80 inventions, none of which, his admirers are proud to say, has ever proved of the slightest practical...
...Palermo harbor Reynolds found a destroyer (nickname: "The Mighty May") battered to a pulp, low in the water, listing badly. He boarded it and asked for the executive officer. A sailor said: "Who, Big Pancho? . . . That's him. The big guy in dungarees...
...intent upon passing the course despite incidental distractions. Two of them, Ensigns Schwerin and Paulsen, are former "schoolm'arms.". Ensign Myers was a research physicist in civilian life. And Ensign Quadland is the girl who knows all about True Confessions, Love Stories and Wild West Tales, having edited several pulp magazines before donning the navy blue...
...judicious combination of blackmail, privilege and loot, Himmler has gathered a fortune. By 1940 he had invested no less than $2,200,000 in South American countries, the Syrian carpet trade, Finland's pulp industry, life-insurance policies...