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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with somewhat of a shock that T read in the Nov. 3 issue of TIME that my pet baby was dead, as TIME referred to the "defunct Judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...first crashing blows were so widespread that it looked as if the Japanese were trying to realize their "Heavensent," Hell-patented ambition of dominating the Pacific all at one fell shock. Actually they had no such crazy plan. They had, instead, a pattern of attack for a first move which was brilliant, thorough, audacious, and apparently in its first two days, successfully carried through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Fort by Fort, Port by Port | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Chiang Kai-shek was surprised, it was a flash reflex. He knew the Japanese too well for shock. The blast of bombs in Pearl Harbor was the amplified echo of an explosion along a Manchurian railway ten years ago. Since that day Chiang's Government, like some dusty, neglected Cassandra, had warned the Western Powers time & again that some day the Japanese Army would turn on them as it had on China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Echo from the West | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...corpuscles would be separated from the plasma, which would then be used for treatment in case of shock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ferry Urges Puritans To Contribute Blood | 12/12/1941 | See Source »

...Japanese citizens studying at Harvard who could be reached last night, differed greatly in their reactions to the news. One had expected a war, the other found it "a complete shock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japanese Students Give Impressions Of Startling Action of Fatherland | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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