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LONDON--Powerful Allied forces swept tonight to the threshold of Tunisia, strategic protectorate over which a struggle for control of the skies already was raging, after driving past the Algerian port of Bone where American reinforcements were landing...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

Britons got a big lift to their morale last week. According to British leaders, the nation's bone and gristle are growing stronger after three years of struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Britannia Rules | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...bone-thin, ardent, intellectual Hindu statesman who bears the formidable name of Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar (pronounced Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar) had ideas last week for an Indian settlement. C. R. wanted to be asked to London. Said he: "I feel the British people have been misled in connection with the Indian problem, and I believe I can make them see the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: C. R. & Ahmadabad | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Displaying a bone-crushing attack that gave a nearly accurate preview of the Varsity game, the West Point Jayvees went the regulars one better by scoring three touchdowns to top the Crimson Junior Varsity 21 to 0 Saturday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Point Eleven Topples Crimson Junior Varsity 21-0 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...last week the Office of Education figured that fully half of U.S. high schools were already teaching aeronautics. For small, remote schools that lacked teachers and texts, the University of Wisconsin started a correspondence course. Teachers, many of whom knew less about aviation than their pupils, hastened to bone up to keep one jump ahead. Macmillan's quickly sold out its first printing of the books (40,000), rushed a second. In Manhattan scores of students, too eager to wait until their schools supplied the books, descended on bookstores to buy their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High Schools, Air-Conditioned | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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