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Their big tanks raced forward through clouds of sand, to the southwest of the city. Sappers had blown earth into the tank traps, cut the thinly strung wire, exploded the land mines with flung stones.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fall of Bardia | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

"If we should become a belligerent nation," declared Willis, "it will be physically possible for an enemy to bomb out coast. Naturally the army air corps has that eventuality in mind. France was bombed. After looking at the results it was easy to see that cellars of ordinary masonry buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Graduate Heads Plan For Boston Air Raid Shelters | 12/12/1940 | See Source »

The war was being fought, and its first phase was now won, straight out of antique textbooks. The Greeks found in these first weeks of the war that the newfangled trappings of war were traps for those who used them in this terrain. The Greeks reverted to an old tactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: First Round: Hellas | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

On Sunday all over England they came hedgehopping and machine-gunned the people as they strolled. The attackers also resorted to booby traps-little metal boxes the size of cigaret tins with dangling wires which the curious were tempted to pull. If they did, they blew themselves up.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Diffusion | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Suzanna and the Elders (by Lawrence Langner & Armina Marshall, produced by Jack Kirkland) tells the tale of one of the many little "Bible socialism" colonies that flourished in the U. S. in the iQth Century. This typical but fictional one, at Harmony Heights, Mass., is devoted to a sharing economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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