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...Island on the far side of the island from the city but on the near side for the Japs- just across the Strait from Johore. By last week, it was already growing worthless as a base to British and American ships in the Far East. But if it is valueless to them, the British want it to remain valueless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: City Facing the Sea | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...talks will concern specific abuses noticed in Cambridge administration, which can "be rectified by the proper people." According to Teachers' Union officials, there will be no electioneering, "since that is practically valueless with so many candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAN E TALKS HELD TUESDAY | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...subsequent thought? Says Author Barzun: they "made final the separation between man and his soul." "Man was no longer a cherished creature of the gods. . . . Things were the only reality-indestructible matter in motion." Result of this apotheosis of matter: "A premium was put on fact, brute force, valueless existence and bare survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Struggle of Ideas | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Last year General Almazan asked Reporter Frank Gibler, who had spent some 20 years shuttling between Mexico and the U. S., to be Almazanista liaison press agent between those two countries. After two months' work, Frank Gibler quit, alleging that instead of salary his boss was paying him valueless Almazan election bonds. The Government Labor Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Wages of Defeat | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...sure that this day [of invasion] will come. On this day the British will realize that the story of an overdue invasion was just as valueless as the story of the bus that Herr Hitler missed, and that their broad viewpoints were nothing but illusions that brought them oceans of blood and tears, just as Prime Minister Churchill predicted when he took over the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Don't Get Restive | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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