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...disguise the gravity of the hour. It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage, or to suppose that well-trained, well-equipped Armies numbering three or four millions of men can be overcome in the space of a few weeks, or even months, by a swoop or raid of mechanized vehicles, however formidable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Men of Valor | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Still it is encouraging to see Harvard turn its eyes to South American shores. America must strengthen the bonds of friendship with its neighbors before trade relations can be bettered. While a Harvard delegation is hardly expected to win Latin amity at one fell swoop, the trip deserves praise on the old theory that "every little bit helps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING DOWN TO RIO 2b (2nd HALF) | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Every day they were strafed by German planes which would swoop as low as 15 feet, machine-gunning refugees, who made targets of themselves by running. The Klines lay flat, eventually got all their film and equipment out of Poland via Riga, Latvia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...particular he lamented the failure of airplanes to follow up the submarine Salmon's discovery and crippling of a German sea squadron last month. The submarine had to dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip a luscious chance to swoop on the enemy. "Since there is now no time for the Navy to organize its own air service," wrote the testy Admiral, "it is imperative that the coastal command [of R. A. F.], with a suitably equipped striking force of bombers and fighters attached, should be placed under operational control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: To Keep Afloat | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...upset fashion, traditional and typical of a 58 year-old rivalry, the Bulldog from New Haven snapped and caught short a fighting Crimson eleven this afternoon. As 55,000 fans were jarred to their feet, the underdog Yale team offset a series of previous defeats in one fell swoop defeating a determined but not yet developed Harvard Varsity Yale 20; Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BEATS HARVARD, 20--7 | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

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