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...Courage Has Bread." By his exhortations, his purges, and by caging the most dangerous of his defectionists, Mussolini has used the threat of invasion to tighten his control over Italy. But despite an apparently growing attitude of rebellion against German domination, he has failed to regain the prestige he once held among those who thought he was un jurbo (an astute fellow), or among the trusting who believed that, regardless of his Party's corruption, Mussolini had the best interests of his people at heart. One story indicated the Italian's cynicism: The Duce was not satisfied with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hand That Held the Dagger | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...crew, officers, and an attached coast guard cutter ... An armed guard crew was picked up floating into port with partial pay cards .. After their latest Ready, Aim, Fire, Abandon Ship episode ... He started spreading his specimens in the gangways and tacking them on the bulkheads ... Ensign Drawers began to tighten up ... He had to pull through ... After all he had to make the next American Legion if he wanted to run for Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...carry it through the war point to its basic weaknesses. Course credit for tutorial now enables men to take it who otherwise could not, and it encourages more thorough work. It was a necessary step, for the war. But after the war the problem will remain of how to tighten and crisp tutorial, and make it for all students the stimulating experience it has been for some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CATHARSIS AT CAMBRIDGE | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Baseball captain Bart Harvey's running brought comment from Harlow, too, Carrying the ball for Team B, last summer's star second baseman reeled off several impressive gains to tighten his hold on the Varsity jersey he gained last Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hibbard, Cummings Back in Crimson Fold | 10/6/1942 | See Source »

...Giving the patient a couple of snifters of whiskey, "one of the best" circulatory stimulants. The old routine of "sticking a cigaret in a wounded soldier's mouth" is very dangerous. Reason: smoking, "without question," causes the small blood vessels to tighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stitching Arteries | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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