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...began exploding around us. Sizzling bomb fragments whizzed into the trench beside my right shoulder. About 30 more large, low-flying planes arrived and, just as Fowler was filming the dive of a Stuka, brownish parachutes flapped open no more than 200 feet above us and gliders began to steer toward the ground just in front of us. We looked at each other and knew that there was no escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Day in Yugoslavia | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune has never tired of telling the U.S. to steer clear of foreign entanglements, especially with the British. Last week the Colonel had a new reason for his old scunner against the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Australia First | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Joseph Merlin inspected the little metal wheels on his shoes, tuned his violin and shoved off on his rolling, novelty entrance to Mrs. Corneily's masquerade in Soho Square, London. He raised his bow and rolled forward. He found that he could not steer. Neither could he stop. He screamed. Two seconds later, Mrs. Corneily's ?500 mirror was in splinters, the fiddle was matchwood, and Merlin was bleeding like a pig. Thus, in 1760, the sport of roller skating was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: History on Wheels | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...Norfolk yesterday. Captain Edward L. Cochrane (now rear admiral and head of the Bureau) went down, Commander Daggett went down, the Army went down [interrupted]. Well, they had a showdown at Norfolk, but a little breeze blew up. . . . The Bureau tank lighter almost capsized. They couldn't steer it. They just drifted around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Skeleton in the Bureau | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Last week's real news was that Dr. F. Ronald Edwards of the University of Liverpool has figured out a way to purify it with heat. If one of these methods can be used for mass production, the plasma supply will be almost limitless-a 1,000-Ib. steer is 7% blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beef Blood | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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