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...Date of the invasion of Holy Russia, when the zigzag Communist Party line zagged right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arms & the Merchant Marine | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...about whether he was really navigating-or whether he was acting under sealed orders. In any case, war between Germany and Russia called for a new compass course from Skipper Curran. Thereupon he flung N.M.U.'s helm hard astarboard, neatly following the latest zig in the Communist Party zigzag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hard A-Starboard | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...that all. Voyages are slower, owing to the fact that convoys must assume the speed of their slowest members and must steer in zigzag courses. On the average, voyages take twice as long as they did before the war. So these 13,000,000 tons of shipping carry roughly only as much goods as 6,500,000 tons could carry in peacetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Britannia Rules the Waves | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...small collapsible buildings, can be unpacked and set up in 24 hours. The buildings are jointed and grooved; once they are unfolded and set up require only tightening of a few stout bolts. Each unit is raised "bout a foot and a half off the ground on four zigzag iron legs which stretch like automobile jacks. Windows made of Plexiglas, run head-high around each building, are hinged so they can be pushed out from the bottom. Floors are made of composition rubber, and through the center of the peaked ceilings run electric tubes for illumination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Collapsible Hospital | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...quarter, after Nebraska had staged a Samsonian goal-line stand, the stadium suddenly shook with a thunderous roar. With his teammates giving an incredible display of downfield blocking, Stanford's Pete Kmetovic, running back Nebraska's punt, scooted over the Nebraska goal line in a 40-yd. zigzag sprint-with all of the Cornhuskers flat on their faces behind him. The Nebraskans failed to score again. So the Indians stuck another feather in their war bonnets. Score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rose, Sugar, Cotton . . . | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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