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...little of a baby's. But once the whistle has sounded, those eyes contracted into slits, a sort of green flame seemed to burn in them and you knew you were up against a man who wasn't fooling. I hope I never find myself in a trench with fellows coming at me with bayonets. But if I ever do, I want to have a guy like Peabody with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DICK HARLOW REVEALS INSIDE STORY ON STAR 1941 GRID TEAM | 12/13/1941 | See Source »

...superiority in tanks and thus radically improve the position of our armies. This method consists not only in increasing several times the output of tanks in our country but also in sharply increasing the output of anti-tank guns, anti-tank aircraft, anti-tank rifles, anti-tank grenades and trench mortars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: INDUSTRIAL FRONT: The Great Trek | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...scoffed: "Hitler pretends that he has lost less than four men for each mile of the front per day. Any soldier who fought in the last war knows that a hundred casualties a division each day is an absolute minimum, even in trench warfare. With 15 divisions engaged, the minimum would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Hitler's Losses | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

This time Odessa has dug in for another bloody event. For trench digging, 100,000 spades have been manufactured in the caviar and sturgeon canning factories within, the past six weeks. Its defenders have been busy manufacturing "Molotov cocktails" (impromptu bombs) out of jam and fish cans; hatchets; crowbars; homemade armored cars. A sign in the telegraph office reads: "We do not guarantee time of arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Two Sieges | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...College sympathies will be this year there is no telling. The Student Union, most violent of the isolationist groups, has always been accused of Communistic leanings, but whether it will adopt the Daily Worker switch remains to be seen.HARVARD SOLDIER, 1916 VERSION, heaves a hand grenade out of the trench near Fresh Pond...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: War Couses Turbulent Two Years | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

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