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...Twilight Rumors. From the cavernous stage of Hitler's Europe, from behind the censor's hastily lowered asbestos curtain, came a confused welter of noises: hoarse shouts, the sound of running footsteps, the sudden stutter of machine guns. It was like the opening scene of a tragic and savage Twilight of the Gods. Rumor cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crack of Doom | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Mills has a sizable twilight league started and is looking for more competitors. Ken, in case you haven't already become acquainted, was the only other non-com on the base beside Mrs. Boni when you arrived here a couple of weeks...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/25/1944 | See Source »

Belly wounds have priority on the operating tables. Nurses call the belly-wound ward "Wangenstein Alley," after the inventor of a stomach suction device. In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients' noses and wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Shadows | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Pensive's 33 running mates at Warren Wright's Calumet stable include such potentially heavy winners as Sun Again, Miss Keeneland, Mar-Kell, and Twilight Tear. Under Ben Jones, this collection of horsepower may well become to racing what the Yankees are to baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jones | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

When he quit teaching, he said: "When I was lecturing at McGill on winter afternoons, the gathering of the twilight would give me warning that my time was up, and that I must say, 'Good night, gentlemen.' And now I can see that the sky has darkened and the light has faded from the windows, and I know that the time has come when I must say, 'Good night, gentlemen-forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: Good Night -- Forever | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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