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Chistov, a factory worker, is mastering the art of sniping; Michurin, a lathe operator, has mastered the heavy machine gun and can riddle stationary or moving targets by day or night; Afinogenov, a bookkeeper, can toss a hand grenade 40 yards. Workmen of the Savin factory practice bayonet drills every day after hours. Bernadsky, a professor at the Herzen Institute, practices with rifle and hand grenade along with the rest of the staff. In the textile mills, Weaver Nikitina, Spinner Vasileyeva, Winder Zhdanova and Piecer Isayeva are busy teaching their fellow workers first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: Eleventh Week | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...cannot but feel, however, that the "Association of Gold Star Mothers" got the dirty end of that Princeton stick. They get shipped to Europe "to view the green fields where their sons shall some day lie" while we stay home and enjoy our boni at Savin Rock. Inasmuch as Mr. Brisbane assures us that the next war will be a Japanese invasion, we see no reason why the Vassar heroines cannot get "teary around the eyes" looking at the green fields adjacent to New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/17/1936 | See Source »

...world to th' King of England an' th' English people; but we don't have to be Ovendales about it! I say, leave off the boom-de-ay." Then some was shoutin' "We want the boom-de-ay!'' an' others was savin' "Leave off the boom-de-ay-leave it off!" So we put the boom-de-ay to a vote, an' it was six-to-six, hog-tied as neat as you ever see. So. Mr. Editor, you'll have to use yore own jedgment. For mcsself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...buying oil from small old wells. In his fight for the cause of oil, Senator Capper is heartily backed by Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas. Last week Governor Woodring sent a telegram of many hundred words to President Hoover, saying he was "astonished and appalled" that no plan for savin? Kansas independents had been devised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil Embargo? Merger? | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...brief, Princeton has the New Jersey countryside, and Yale has Savin Rock, but Harvard has only Back Pay--and Brattle Hall. Each has its advantages, and they differ. Mr. Farrar is only carning at the inevitable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEACON VS. CHAPEL STREET | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

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