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...lots of brawn on his fine body, but he also has more than his share of bone between his ears. He always was, and probably still is, a great fighter. But he is not a strategist. He is still a cavalry noncom of incredible dash and dumbness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Bringing Back An Army | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Class of '45 is here," echoed Vag mentally. Then,--why yes, of course. They're still coming and always will. That was something--plenty. And Vag felt that it was calm again. "Guess I'd better dash over to Mem Hall and register...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...orders with the name 'Jack' though his proper Christian name's 'John' ; but below decks everybody calls him 'Splash Guts.' I don't know why this is, except maybe it's because he's so full of splash and dash, and he's got more guts than any man in the whole Royal bloody Navy, or, for that matter, any other bloody (biological participle) navy afloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Old Splash Guts | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...dragged into a half-hour, close to an hour, as the technicians with their gauges settled themselves and made their equipment ready for the test. How would she take it? Would she heel to starboard before the recoil of her broadside? Would it rip her guts? Would the blast dash the laymen observers from the eyes of the ship into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Biggest Roar Afloat | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Frederick N. Bonine, 77, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete who in 1885 did the 100-meter dash in 10.8 seconds-a record that stood for 15 years until broken by F. W. Jarvis; in Niles, Mich. A popular cut-rate eye specialist in Niles, he made no appointments, charged $2 for the first visit, $1 thereafter, took his patients from a queue that usually extended half a city block from his drab little office above a drugstore. He once estimated that in 38 years he had treated 1,500,000 cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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