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...people who did not forget were the Chinese, who live on the opposite side of the earth from Western civilization and celebrate upside-down holidays called National Humiliation Days. For ten years their most important National Humiliation Day has been Chiu I Pa. (pronounced Jo Ee Ba, translated Nine-One-Eight, meaning Sept. 18). On Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Decade of Humiliation | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...high spike heels and flung herself on the bed and burst into tears." "We're married," said her husband. "Well, now," said Paw, his face clearing, "come right in." "I hate him," said Virginia, "I hate him. I'm going to have a b-b-ba-baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The WP & A | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...your dial) 7:30U.T. Review. 7:35 Members of the "Ba Ba Back Bay" cast 7:45 Concert Master--Gilbert and Sullivan Program. 8:45 Harvard Association of Song Writers. 9:00 Hot Off the Record. 9:30 Radio Workshop Production--"Lo the Butter Stinkothi" by request. 10:00 Crimson Concert Hall--Chamber Music. 10:45 Bedtime Corner--"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." 10:55 News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

...fliers swooped low to machine-gun hangar attendants, unloaded their bombs over a fleet of 100 planes drawn up on the field. At Bengasi itself, five Italian ships in the harbor were blasted with incendiaries and explosives. At every Italian air base around the Cyrenaican bulge to Martúba the British kept pounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Crumbling Empire | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...that Moses himself probably changed Gods during the Children of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah) more often than as El, and when the Jews invaded Palestine with Yahweh as their God they undertook to exterminate the Canaanites among whom Abraham, worshipping El, had spent his life in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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