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John (Give'em the bird) Robbins and Fire Dog Lyman bore the brunt of the cortical punishment absorbed by the 14 Plymptonsters, but it was Jack Ballantine who robbed his teammates of the glories for the evening by his delicate definition of the phrase "on the make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Brain Trust Dusts Off Lampoon in 23 to 2 Witskrieg | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

...citizens generally were willing to accept much positive action-as they did in the destroyer-bases deal-but only if it bore the negative label "Defense." But the public did not yet admit that the struggle with Hitler on which the U. S. is to spend $6,500,000,000 in fiscal '41 was reality. To most people it was still a phony struggle, as year ago the war to Britons was a phony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR AND PEACE: Eyes on the U. S. | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...playing at a spa in Bohemia. She left six moppets-the youngest aged two-at home in Leipzig. Contrary to the custom of the times, Richard was not baptized until twelve weeks after his birth. His legal father died three months later. Widow Wagner married Geyer the following summer, bore him a daughter six months after the wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wagner No Aryan? | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Tugboat Annie in manner or language, little Captain "Ma" got her orders obeyed without profanity, spent her leisure embroidering and reading in her cabin. She took time out to bear two sons (one of whom died in boyhood), bore another on a steamer held fast in an ice gorge. She brought up the boys in her cabin, slipping easily from singing lullabies to snapping orders to her crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Clear Sailing for Ma | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...states that "in the Houses distribution will be permitted automatically by the Dean's office except in those Houses where the Master has expressed a desire to give personal approval." Until last night all House masters had disregarded their privilege and had granted automatic privilege to any pamphlets that bore the approval of the Denn's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAMPHLET IS REJECTED BY MERRIMAN | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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