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Word: instinctively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Casually, but with the instinct of an oldtime newspaperman making a scoop, Lord Beaverbrook referred last week in his report on British aircraft production to a new British fighter: the Whirlwind (specifications still secret). And he stated: "All the fighters and all the bombers that we lost during the months the battle has raged over Britain have been paid for in full, completely and entirely, by public subscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: WHIFFS, PUFFS & SNUFFS | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Colonel Hashimoto is an extremist's cynosure: he is tough, aggressive, cruel, tenacious, mystical. He loves action, and he acts by instinct. His body and mind are as hard as steel but also as sensitive as an ack-ack predictor. He learned the technique of revolution as a Japanese military attaché by watching Russian barricades in 1917. By 1931, he commanded a heavy-artillery unit in Manchuria, and was one of those responsible for the Manchurian incident of that year. Five years later he was one of the plotters in the bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood-Red Patriot | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...institutions . . . almost like a fairy tale." But the primitive, polyglot city of Tiflis again reminded him of his mother. "Napoleon wasn't worth anything, and Hitler certainly isn't. They think they change the world, but in the last analysis everything remains as it was. . . . The human instinct for self-preservation is tough and ineradicable. Its patient, long-suffering force seems to keep pace with any historical change, and finally to outlast it." This statement of faith comes easy to Novelist Graf. It comes easier than does facing his own errant, Bohemian part in bringing on the desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Deep Myth | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...doubtless conveying what practically every one of the 16 million Filipinos are saying, and would say, if allowed the chance to explode their hearts' content. These 16 million suntanned Brownies are not a specimen of a species hypothesized to be devoid of the psychology-discovered instinct of self-preservation. And in this world of Blitzkriegs; of Hurricanes and Spitfires and Junkers, and Panzer Divisions; of $5,000,000,000 defense programs and ''hemispheric defense"; of "China Incidents," and of "New Orders in Greater Asia,"-the instinct of the day (for the young, defenseless and unprepared) is self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...over their foreknowledge of death-to-come if they blow up the bridge. Jordan goes through with it because he is intellectually convinced that he is helping to defeat fascism. Pilar goes through with it because she is part of the revolution and cannot stop. Pablo's strong instinct to live makes him desert at the last moment and destroy the detonator. Then he, too, realizes in his own way that "no man is an iland." He cannot stand the loneliness of desertion, returns to help dynamite the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in Spain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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