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...Twelve Islands) are really 13 islands off the southwest of Turkey which Italy grabbed in 1912 during the scrap with Turkey for Tripoli. Rhodes is the biggest of them. Being unable to raise so much as a smoke screen from the Latin enemy, the Eastern Mediterranean Command decided to bite at the Dodecanese and hope for an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: At Thirteen Islands | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Italy's object in the far-flung bush battles of the war in East Africa is to bite off pieces of France's colonies in the north, gain control of Egypt and the Suez, and bite into Great Britain's holdings in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Bush Battles | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...crooked politicians, for we are trying to be "Realists" as opposed to those whose thinking is based upon a possibly outmoded European setup. We are not Pros for anything except our own general scheme of Democracy, and we see no sense in those who apparently wish us to bite off our nose to spite our face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...Best animal: Sharkey, the seal whose bark is better than his bite in Higher and Higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Annual Report | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...thing that this band has that most don't is collective "push". Every one in it is working all the time; there's a bite to the ensemble passages that makes them much more interesting than they ordinarily would. It's a young band, but a good band, and one almost anybody should put their chips...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

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