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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Land. The Border Region, a wilderness of loess cut into wild shapes by streams, broken by valleys and woodland, is generally fertile, but there is little rainfall. The Communists are slowly changing the face of this churlish land. Where the soil is cultivable, they have planted crops. Villages have plenty of pigs and chickens. Generally the inhabitants look sturdy, well-fed, well-clothed. The typical village home is an arched loess cave, whitewashed and faced with wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond China's Sorrow | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Near the little woodland lake of Nemi. 20 miles from a Rome as yet unborn. Rome's Father Aeneas, at the Sibyl's bidding, plucked a branch from a tree in the Sacred Grove before he essayed his perilous journey into the world of the dead. In time Nemi's Sacred Grove withered, ultimately to be immortalized in Sir James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Caligula's Galleys | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Affinities. In Bound Brook, N.J., Barbara Jane Brilliant was engaged to Lieut. Saul Sunshine. In Woodland, Calif., Mrs. John Snowball paid $5,500 for a house to Bartholomew Blizzard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Earl of Fitzwilliam's secretary and his estate agent spluttered in angry despair over the "incredible, appalling despoliation." Already 450 acres of the estate surrounding Wentworth Woodhouse, ancestral Fitzwilliams seat in Yorkshire, had been chewed by huge shovels scooping out subsurface coal. A farm, a woodland, a parkland had been dug up. Soon a stud farm, paddocks, fish pond, tree nursery, stately avenues and timbered slopes would also go. The place was a "complete mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Stately Coals of England | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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