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They had to learn to use machetes, cut their trails through matted tree and vine. They packed tents, food, guns, building materials, ammunition into the steaming wastes by boat, truck, muleback, and shanks' mare. They slashed down forests, cut away hilltops and hillsides to make sites for their guns and quarters. They built their barracks, from foundation to rooftop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Jarman's Junglemen | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...Hollywood for a wrestling match, Maurice ("The Angel") Tillet, fearsome-faced French wrestler, let himself be photographed strolling down Vine Street with Starlet Suzanne Ridgway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...ingredients are still the secret of Medicine Man Gill, a handful of scientists and a jungleful of witch doctors. Others will have to be satisfied with the poetry of the translated Indian names of the plants that yield the poison - the thick-gold-stick; the toucan-tongue; the vine-which-is-like-a-frog; the magic-stick- that-grows-beside-big-waters; roots from the plant-which-talks-in-the-wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Precious Poison | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Called Dive Bomber and Tank the mural was a starkly symbolic study of war's destructiveness, done in eleven colors ranging from lime white to vine black with four shades of red, which suggested explosions, storm clouds, dried blood. It had no political significance, said Orozco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man At Work | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Yard police, hearing rumors of illicit proceedings, rushed to the Business School, but only to find that Patricia Archambault and Rita Hamlin, a couple of Thespians from Emerson, had uprooted and pilfered an ivy vine, to be used at the dedication of Emerson's new theatre on Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIRL DUO PILFERS IVY FROM WALL OF GRADUATE DWELLING | 6/7/1940 | See Source »

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