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...straighten things out about "rank-&-filers" on the "ad-less" Stars & Stripes [TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...Crimson has been weakest on the bases, going from radical dare-deviling to conservative timidity over night. Partially the result of the inavailability of outdoor practice, Coach Stahl expects to be able to straighten out that kink in the coming weeks...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Nine Seeks to Upset Experts' Pessimism | 4/8/1942 | See Source »

There was plenty for him to do in his new job. Badly needed was a mastermind to straighten out the tangle and confusion of Lend-Lease red tape and to synchronize U.S. production and purchasing with British and Russian needs. The Beaver knew how to cut red tape. Whether the brilliant, bumptious outspoken millionaire was the right man to handle all the delicate bric-a-brac of human relationships involved was something else again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beaver Arrives | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...their energy, the three men made for shore. Pastula screeched when a shark struck his hand. "Hell with the shark," Dixon roared. "Row." At sundown they grounded on the beach, then found that they could scarcely walk because their legs were so cramped. Dixon's hip refused to straighten out, but even so he forced his crew to march up the beach in military fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...early Monday morning, for instance, the certitude develops among the mill hands that the days of the week are stuck, and it is still Sunday, a sinful day to work. Almost a week passes before Sam's acquaintance, the King (who talks a Yorkshire solid as cheese), helps straighten things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Reading Aloud | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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