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...same burning wish. Said one sailor: "Before this we didn't want to fight anybody. But now all we want is to get well enough to get our crack at those bastards." He did not yet know that a wound from a bomb splinter on his spine would never let him fight or walk again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, The Wounded Return | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...underestimated, not only as to numbers but also as to ability. It had never occurred to the British that little men in shorts and gym shoes could actually filter through Malayan jungles. Japanese forces had apparently made contact all the way across the peninsula: even across the central mountain-spine. The middle jungles had previously been the domain of the dwarfish Sakai, a hairy, blow-gunning people who travelers say are so primitive that they have digits only up to two and count: one, two, many, many-many, many-many-many. The Japanese bribed savages to lead them through their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: New Commander's Job | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...style by getting Cleveland citizens to build a million-dollar ice bowl with 10,000 red-white-&-blue seats, a spine-tingling organ, beer garden, fancy press box. Fellow leaguers followed suit. Today nine of the ten clubs in the American League are financially independent (though many have working agreements with the National League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Breaking the Ice | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...PRESSURE TERRIFIC. KEPT SPINNING ALL THE TIME. TO BE ABLE TO CUT LOOSE AS SUGGESTED NEEDED SEVERAL MORE ARMS. ON THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE NEITHER BAD NOR TERRIFYING, CONSCIOUS ALL THE TIME. LIEUT. LOWREY'S RESCUE THE AMAZING THING AND TO HIM BOUQUETS. PRACTICALLY RECOVERED FROM BROKEN SPINE. TRY IT AGAIN IN TWO MONTHS REGARDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...chair of his sumptuous suite. "Why can't they leave the outing clubs at Dartmouth, where that sort of thing belongs?" His complexion was losing its summer tan, taking on the familiar city sallowness, and his eyes were red with Cambridge soot. This Cambridge Scrooge rested upon his recumbent spine, and his head nodded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/9/1941 | See Source »

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