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...home,' which 'was Germany. Then a woman remarked, weren't they proud of the way their Führer was holding back the vicious Russian onslaught; but soon her face lit up-the spring would come and then. . . . She stopped abruptly. Someone had motioned that a stranger was present. Strangers round here were rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA: Under Der Union Jack | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...doctor or dentist to go to Podunk. He may have to give up an established practice in Brooklyn to do this. The three doctors who left Podunk may say it is a hell of a note to put us in uniform and then turn our practice over to a stranger who will be too well established when we return for us to get back our former patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lining Up the Doctors | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...time it was thought that the energetic stranger from the U.S. would be a great help to Sir Stafford. But soon, significantly, Pandit Nehru told the press: "We have not asked for anyone's intervention. For my part, I admire President Roosevelt and consider he has been shouldering a very great burden worthily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Good-by, Mr. Cripps | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...article entitled "The Stranger Within Our Gates" [TIME, Jan. 19] you state ". . . that Jap high-school boys from Hawaii had helped pilot the planes that attacked Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...Buck Byrd rides again," cracked Washington newshawks. Down the warpath, sure enough, padded Economizer Harry Byrd of Virginia, his apple cheeks stained winesap-red with indignation. He was still after the scalp of OCD; and he was hot on the trail. He had discovered that OCD had still stranger captives in its tepee than Dancer Mayris Chancy (resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: More Damn Fun | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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