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...Sutton's brown hair has a trace of grey now. Sitting in her neat living room, under one photograph of her husband in civilian clothes, one of him in uniform, she sometimes reads the message in which Ted told her he planned to enlist. It is in her diary, under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Sudden Death | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Certain significant developments might have meant that all this smoke did mean a trace of fire. The Fascist War Office burst into feverish activity. Berlin report-ed "important conferences" between Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and General Ettore Bastico, Governor of Libya and Com-mander in Chief of Italian forces there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Axis Fidgets | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...deed of gift was many deeds of war) To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become. Whatever America becomes, she will bear, to her lasting beautification, the pioneer trace of Robert Frost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

There was just a trace of well-bred bitterness in the London press after General George C. Marshall and Harry Hopkins flew home from their consultations with British war leaders. It had been nice of the two visitors to bring gifts to Mrs. Winston Churchill and Sir Alan Brooke, the British Chief of the Imperial General Staff. But really, old boy, what gifts! Hadn't those American chaps heard that there is coal at Newcastle? The gifts: a crate of Brussels sprouts; a crate of cabbages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Union Now | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...able to lubricate, disassemble and make ready the torpedo. Know the names and be able to recognize the use of all special tools used with torpedoes. Be able to charge a torpedo and to handle war heads. Understand and be able to trace fuel, air, water and oil lines in torpedoes. Be able to balance a gyro and know the theory of the gyro. Be able to carry out all regulations in regard to care, repair and tests of torpedo and torpedo mechanisms. Know the application of Ohm's law, Kirzchoff's law and other principles of electricity. Understand Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVY | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

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