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TVA sponsored part of Miss Hawley's work to learn about past cycles of drought and deluge revealed in the old trees in order to learn about future problems in harnessing a great watershed. Federal entomologists were interested because weather cycles affect the number of insect pests which they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tree Clocks | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

From this juncture the camera frequently scans pages from the Centuries. Most favored prophecy: "The young lion will conquer the old one upon the field in a single combat. He will pierce his eye in a golden cage, who will then die a dreadful death." This meant nothing until Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nostradamus | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

In the last war the British were free to use the Mediterranean as a supply route. The entrance of Italy into this war signalized the stoppage of the Mediterranean short cut. The British have only tried to put one large convoy through since last June, and that was the one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Britannia Rules the Waves | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

The Stukas swooped across the Aegean skies like dark, dreadful birds, but they dropped no bombs on the monks of Mount Athos. The motorized Nazi hordes rumbled across the Salonikan peninsula, but they did not invade its 40-mile-long eastern cape where the holy and historic Mount towers in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOUNT ATHOS: Failing Light | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

An intensely symbolic scene was laid in a great hall of Bristol University one day last week. It was the day after a dreadful raid. Not many yards from the hall, high walls were still tottering and crumbling.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: This Turning Point | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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