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General Arturo Rawson became President, ruled Argentina for almost two days. While Porteños, and the rest of the world, looked on in some amazement, the Presidential guard was changed at the double quick, and swifter than the opening of a trap door, General Pedro Ramirez succeeded President Arturo Rawson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Boss of the GOU | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...brown and grey gorges and leaping yellow waters the lean boatmen hopped and screamed like jays. Above their ragged blue trousers they wore emblazoned shirts. They had daubed yellow pigment on the heads of their boy helpers. They had oiled the keels of their long craft to maker them swifter. Now they waited for the starting signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Fifth of the Fifth | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...bombers the men grew tense after the long monotony of their flight. The motors roared on steadily, but now their throbbing beat was swifter, and by the steady pressure in their ears the men knew they were going down. Ahead and below, the lakes that marked their targets shone like silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Loosing the Flood | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Divided into eleven episodes, Winter Soldiers treats of people heroic enough to die for cause, yet human enough to swerve and falter, muster only a last-minute courage. Badly in need of sharper dialogue and swifter movement, Winter Soldiers, for all its faults, outranks most of what Broadway now has to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: On Hitler's Timing | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Admiral Mahan died in 1914, too early to realize that World War I would produce another kind of power, air power. Far swifter, far more plastic, perhaps far deadlier than any weapon previously invented by man, its great potentialities nevertheless remained, after 25 years of development and 1,000 hours of the war that would ultimately prove its potency, almost as untried as the 2,000,000 troops facing each other last week across the Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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