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...other stranger to guess which one to take. Luckily, I spoke both French and Flemish and was able to ask a native. When I asked him for la bonne route in French, he refused to answer as a matter of principle, but when I asked for de weg, he obliged, somewhat startled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1973 | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

middel, Jaag die skilfers weg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Hucksters Abroad | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

Natives Out, Beer In. When the Americans turned up at Ulithi, the 300 primitive natives and their paralytic King Ueg (pronounced Weg) agreed to move from Mogmog to mile-long Fassarai, one of the atoll's southern islands. (The Japs had taken the able-bodied natives with them.) Leaving a doctor and a chief pharmacist's mate to administer to the people on Fassarai, the Navy put the Seabees to work. The result was something new in naval history: a vast service station enabling entire fleets to operate indefinitely at unprecedented distances from their main, landmass bases. Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Mighty Atoll | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Accountable "only to God" for its actions, the Broederbond has only 2,672 members after 26 years of existence. But all of them are handpicked, fanatical, British-hating Afrikaners. Most of them are professional people. Their slogan is "Weg met die Brit" (Down with the Briton). The Broederbond wants a strictly authoritarian republic run by a one-party Afrikaans Volksraad (People's Council), headed by an Afrikaner president. English would not be recognized as an official language nor would English-speaking South Africans be recognized as ware (true) Afrikaners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Broederbond Ban | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...born, that of Huysmans and Wilde and Anatole France, a world in which avarice and hatred have been more obvious than usual, a world tired and emasculated, "decadent." Against this he has struggled, like a "Titan," as the jacket puts it. Probably he felt much freer in writing "Mein Weg als Deutcher und Jude." This propagandizing and sociologizing mars all his work except the "World's Illusion," for in the three years to come the critical stage will no longer be the same critical stage...

Author: By E. L. Hatfield jr., | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE KEY | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

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