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...living room is almost filled with a huge rectangular table, covered with maps. That is his desk. At it, in front of a coal fire, he holds the all-important conferences to which he invites officers with such offhand orders as: "Come on over and see me" or "Better drop in tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Man Who Paved the Way | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...differed in describing Takrouna. Some of the Highlanders, staring at it through the moon-sifting mist that night, said that it looked like Edinburgh Castle. Other men said it looked like terrain on the moon. One man, looking at it through binoculars, said: "It is as though a great rectangular block of stone had been set down quite recently at the edge of the plain, and then another, smaller block on top of that. The height was held by some of the best Axis troops, for Takrouna was the beginning of the last natural wall before Tunis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Storming of Takrouna | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...middle of the bare floor was a pile of trunks and boxes, neatly scaled and with tags and stickers announcing their destination. Vag pulled off his gloves, methodically, with his teeth, and slid his hands into his pockets. He looked around him slowly at the rectangular islands of clean paint on the walls, ghosts of Bob's school banners and pictures, that had become so familiar. He stared hard at the emptiness. A piece of jagged white wood hanging slantwise on the wall by a single nail caught his eye. Vag cocked his head and read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...crossed the Mekong and the Salween en route to the Japanese lines with lights out, our formation tight, the interlocking ships black against the rising moon behind them. Tengyueh lay absolutely still within the rectangular walls of its valley, with not a glimmer of light anywhere. But the brilliance of the moon traced the outlines of the walls and the main streets in clear, sharp shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: --ALL YE FAITHFUL-- | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...Crowded Charing Cross Road would be crossed by a flying bridge on a broad highway leading to Piccadilly Circus, which would become rectangular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Post-War London | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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