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Just then a school of hungry sharks, unusually active off New England this year, spotted the netful of fish. They charged toward the seine, prepared to tear it to bits. But suddenly they changed their minds, turned tail and swam away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sharks Don't Like It | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...swam into the sea, was recaptured. A Jap soldier poured gasoline on his foot and set it afire, finally set fire to his other foot and to both his hands. In the end the Japs bayoneted their victim, poured gasoline over him and watched the flames until his body was consumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATROCITIES: Before Hiroshima | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Greetings. Near Esquipulas, Guatemala, a fish encountered openmouthed Swimmer Lazaro Perez, swam in, choked him to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Kruger was a shrewd horse trader and a grasping man. But diamond-studded Kimberley and gold-booming Johannesburg (which lay in his own territory) horrified him. These mushroom cities swarmed with the world's adventurers, who swam in alcohol and commonly bid up to $100 (plus three cases of champagne) for one night with a prostitute. The invaders also overran the countryside, tapping the rocks with their greedy little prospector's ham mers and dazzling the Boer farmers with sovereigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Black, A Briton, A Boer | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...Trieste last week U.S. and New Zealand troops played soccer with their Yugoslav comrades-in-arms, swam with them in the warm Adriatic, laughed together at British films shown through Yugoslav projectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Danger in Trieste | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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