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...house, but outside, outside)" is a warning that there is a leopard on the loose. When the drum says: "A nto ane jomolo, jomolo (He is as weakening, weakening)," it means a tribesman is very ill. When a man has died, the drum taps: "Only folds, folds hands on breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drum Telegraphy | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...breast were four medals for bravery and marksmanship. The Germans got to know her very well: once they called to her by loudspeaker over the battlefield, offering her cake and chocolate to "come over to us." Asked last week how she felt when she picked off her first Nazi, she replied: "How can a human being feel when killing a poisonous snake?" Her score is actually 311. She explained that the first two were not Germans, but Rumanians, and only "trial shots" to qualify her as a sniper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 7, 1942 | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...prongs which the Japanese had thrust into the breast of China began to wither and recede. China's heart still beat.The Jap appeared to be frustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: Strain Showing? | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

There, where France's shame had been twice compounded-in 1870 when Napoleon III surrendered to Moltke, in 1940 when Rundstedt's army poured through a gaping rent in Corap's line-Rundstedt sits with his staff. On the breast of his tunic gleam bright ribbons won in that and many another triumph-Poland, Russia, the Lowlands-and from his high collar dangles the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. But Gerd von Rundstedt has little time for dreams of past glories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Facing the Channel | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Cordell Hull had worked over his speech with the patience of a thorough man. He had dictated it to a battery of secretaries, revised and corrected it in his laborious, Victorian longhand. Now, sitting at his desk before twelve microphones, he carefully took his hornrimmed pince-nez from the breast pocket of his grey suit, carefully shook out the anchoring length of black ribbon, carefully spoke to the world about World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Voice from the Mountain | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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