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...ultimate fulfillment of the free . . . It is that there incarnates in the beast A Spirit native to the universe, Which by our signature we have released, Beyond recall, from human custody. . . . Strong men these are, whose hearts can never rest; Forever ending, only to begin; Forever moving on the trackless quest Of what forever is, yet cannot be: Forever turned to face the arduous West- The dream of progress to infinity - The eternal destination of the free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Beginning | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Secret Pokret. I soon learned the meaning of pokret (movement)-the secret of the Partisan war strategy. It is a mass march across trackless rocks and forests, usually at night. The idea is to break through the German encirclement or to get, by intricate maneuvering, behind the pursuing German columns and pursue them in turn. It is like a slow-motion air dogfight, performed on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down the Blue Hip | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...over the ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 17, 1944 | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...terrific task: it meant fighting and building his way through hundreds of miles of trackless country, across mountains and through jungles. Last week, within 50 miles of Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch-i-nah), the goal whose capture would make his campaign a success, the Japs made a savage attempt to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Double Pay-Off on the Border | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...British airmen, training in Rhodesia, failed to return from a cross-country flight over the trackless wastes of Bechuanaland. Last week, in the thatched courthouse at Francistown, three ocher-skinned Bushmen named Twaitwai, Tammai and Kiree told what happened to the flyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Bechuanaland Mystery | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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