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...have electric lights, thus we are fully enabled to enjoy life to radio music. Our requisition was completed today, so tomorrow we will draw our new uniforms, which include, among other things, underwear, two, both cotton and wool longies, sox, overshoes, and even wrist watches, for four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...thing about him is his perfect courtesy. A raw-boned and awkward freshman steps before him. Nothing is right about his stance. His parries are slow and his disengage circles huge. Patiently Peroy begins to iron out the main difficulties, showing him how to put his feet, relax his wrist, lunge, cut to the head. At the end of about fifteen minutes, he salutes him as he would the most formidable opponent, smilingly steps up and shakes his hand, and beckons to the next...

Author: By E. S., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

...familiar with firearms and their handling may readily discern, the following items are incorrect: 1) twisted posture, from jutting neck to probable poor foot position; 2) thumb is bent downward, grasping the pistol butt instead of being straight alongside the receiver - and acting as a brace; 3) wrist is not straight; 4) entire arm is crooked, which will cause the recoil to be directed off his body at an angle; 5) left arm is tensely drawn across his body, instead of being in one of the three approved positions - at side, bent with palm flat on hip, or hand relaxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Mediterranean servants who rut in the garden, two highly civilized Americans who platonize in the house, an ill-matched Irish couple who come for the afternoon, and their Cockney chauffeur. The true centre is inhuman : it is Lucy, a falcon with "maniacal eyes," who rides the Irishwoman's wrist and devours, from her bloody glove, a new-slain pigeon. While the chauffeur and the servants go backstairs to evolve the cruel jealousies of simple blood, and the Americans maintain their delicately sterile balance, the Irish pair talk. Most of their talk is of the falcon, whom the husband hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fresh Start | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...State champion, Ecas Vaughan, Illinois State champion, Irving Bauman, also from Illinois, runner-up in the nationals in 1935 and 1938. The contestants, some of them stripped to the waist, sweated up & down the corn rows, snatching off the dried ears, husking them with a hook strapped to the wrist, flinging them against the "bang-boards" of tractor-drawn wagons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: Though Dynasties Pass | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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