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Up New York City's famed Fifth Avenue, spirits undamped by a chill rain that made banners limp and drumheads soggy, tramped 48,000 of the faithful, colleens and patriarchs mostly, as the young Hibernians are off fighting again.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The World Needs Ireland | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

At night, too, men, guns and tanks moved toward the front, and burrowed underground. Snow still lay thinly upon the soggy soil, and prime movers pulled sleds loaded with cannon and ammunition.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Cannon's High Priest | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

To the southeast, on the soggy approaches to Nikopol, five other divisions were Still desperately fighting their way down to the Black Sea. They were harried by the low-flying Stormoviks and pursued through the thick, black mud by Russian mobile columns. For many a German soldier the icy Dnieper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: How to Attack | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

After two seasons of soggy, reclaimed-rubber "victory balls," tennis players will get a new bounce this year. Balls are being made of synthetic rubber, and there will be plenty of them.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Ball, Old Difficulty | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Jungle War. "The Japanese and the jungles-both are implacable. There is rain, a soggy, degrading heat, and always the dysentery and malaria. . . . Supplies for men and aircraft are scarce. . . . The preliminary skirmishes for Burma . . . are already going on. American-trained Chinese troops are clearing the way for the new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Reporter's Report | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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