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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing was certain. The U.S. people had not won. They could reckon their losses in simple arithmetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Won? | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...This bleeding newspaper says another 300,000 Germans killed on the Russian front. I've counted up all the Germans killed in Russia and I reckon there's only two of them left. Love a duck, what do they think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Pub and the People | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

What John L. Lewis didn't reckon with, was the force of public opinion. This time might be different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Notice to John Lewis | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...TIME pays a rightful tribute to the mighty leader of a mighty people. . . . Never was seen a more inspiring example of a people infused with the power of an idea. The power of this idea is the one thing that the master mind of the master race did not reckon with; and it is the one thing that can lick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Paper Warriors | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...when it did, calculated to stun and sicken the people by outraging the season that stands for a symbol of peace, to wreak the maximum psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed bastards from now on." In Phoenix: "How many of the yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the People Said | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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