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Eventually Yale won the epic combat, 10 to 0. According to the CRIME, "While Harvard men deplore the result, they rejoice that they were beaten by men who have brought the game up so nearly to perfection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 50 YEARS AGO WHEN HARVARD, ELI FOOTBALL WAS FOOTBALL | 11/21/1941 | See Source »

...auxiliary carriers within six months. Two more, still abuilding, can be completed as carriers within a year. The Long Islands, which can make 17-18 knots, have room for 20 planes and are ideal for convoy duty. Unlike their big sisters, who stay far behind the fleet during combat, they will travel safest in the middle of convoys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Floating Airfields | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

This autumn, amid the happy local noise of a new U.S. radio season, the man at the other end of U.S. short-wave transmission was much on the minds of U.S. broadcasters. He had a place, too, in the thoughts of a U.S. Government pledged to combat his oppressors. Last month, after a great deal of bucking and yawing, the two interested parties in shortwave affairs got in harness together on a working program. The net of it: henceforth the Truth sent to short-wave listeners by the U.S. would not be sent at random, but would hit at Nazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The U.S. Short Wave | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...twelve-year-old Jungmddel (members of the Nazi organization for girls under 14) chase and beat one of their number. Her crime: she had "insulted" a Jungmddel's sister by saying she should not have had a baby without being married. Concluded Ziemer: "If we are to combat the spirit of German youth with our own spirit of Democracy, it will have to be ... a spirit as fiery in its concentration as Naziism is in German schools. . . . Hitler is making fanatics. We should at least make believers. . . . Young Germany is awake and ready to die. Let young America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education for Death | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

They call it all sorts of names: "jeep," "beep," "peep," "bug," "chigger."* But by any name this homeliest item in the U.S. Army's rolling stock, the 2,200-lb. midget combat car, has, after a year and a half of service, been recognized as an unexpected and unique success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Jeep O' My Heart | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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