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...also the possibility that German resistance might slow down the Russian advance. But at least it did not seem too much to hope that, if this Russian drive was not the last, it was the next to last, that a joint summer offensive from east and west would completely shatter the power of the Reich to wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Historic Force | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

German propaganda landed another sneak punch last week, in its long and skillful fight to shatter Allied unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Phony | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

Tomorrow the third place club, Company I, will tackle Company C to see whether they can do anything to shatter the leader's four gaiue winning streak. If they win, they will be tied for first with C with a record of four and one. However, if second place Company D can put Lowell House away, then D will again be back in first place with a record of five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Company C Forges Ahead In Intramural Softball Play | 8/1/1944 | See Source »

...They figured they would get $1.50 a bu., biggest price in a good year since 1919. By day, the farmers fretted over the things that could go wrong. Hail storms or heavy rain could lay whole fields flat. A spell of 100-degree heat might cause the grain to shatter. Some times insects scourged the land just before the harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Waiting on the Sky | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...ship moored near by jumped onto a wharf. Another tossed her anchor into her neighbor's rigging. Everything on the dock, including seven fire engines, disappeared. A mile away a householder saw every window in his home shatter at once, found a 28-lb. gold -bar (worth $27,700) on his veranda. An officer staggered, blackened and bleeding, into the Taj Mahal Hotel muttering, "the air-full of arms and legs and heads -horrible-horrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Fire in Bombay | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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