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...East Coast the sixteenth victim of Nazi submarines, Standard Oil tanker W. L. Steed, went down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Week | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...Kazak's life is to go skimming over the plains on his steed, rounding up horses or collecting stray cattle. His tent is warm, his clothing ample, his belly full, and he lives a free and untrammeled existence with religion sitting lightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Great Caravan | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Stefan Lorant is also author of the best-selling I Was Hitler's Prisoner, which British Editor Wickham Steed said would outlast the Third Reich. After the Hungarian Government got him out of a Nazi concentration camp, Lorant started Picture Post in London, ran up its circulation to 1,500,000 in a few weeks. With his first U.S. citizenship papers in his pocket, Lorant is working on a pictorial history of the U.S., of which Lincoln will be a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Biography in Pictures | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Portugall, along the river Tagus, & about Lisbon, certaine it is, that when the westwind blowes, the mares set up their tailes, and turne them full against it, and so conceive that genitall aire in steed of naturall seed: in such sort, as they become great withall, and quicken in their time, & bring forth foles as swift as the wind, but they live not above three yeres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ice Packs for Fathers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two for the Show | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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