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With two others (John Rivers of Philadelphia and Lee Diamond of New York), Schmid was lying mouse-quiet in a machine-gun nest on the bank of a sluggish river dividing the American-held beachhead from Jap territory. The long-expected attack came early in the morning. Said Schmid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: In a Solomons' Gun Nest | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Sluggish action marked the first half. Thayer Drake's penalty shot, which sailed futilely over the cross-bar, was the nearest thing to a Varsity goal. The Pointers lived up to their reputation for driving power, amazing the Harvard defense with long range firing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Force Cadets Down to Scoreless Tie | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...assistant executive editor of the New York World-Telegram, went to Denver two years ago to pump some life blood into Scripps-Howard's doddering Rocky Mountain News. With the help of Business Manager Bill Hailey, he brightened up the stodgy, old (83 years) sheet, raised its sluggish circulation to a new high (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear Mrs. Mayfield | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Relativities. When Rommel made his first tentative attack, the rains in Ethiopia had washed the red-brown silt down from the hills, swelling the sluggish Nile. The hottest desert days were over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EGYPT: Between Two Walls | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...first condition [of free speech] is that the individual have something to say. Literacy is a prerequisite of free speech, and gives it point. Denied education, denied information, suppressed or enslaved, people grow sluggish; their opinions are hardly worth the high privilege of release. Similarly, those who live in terror or in destitution, even though no specific control is placed upon their speech, are as good as gagged. There can be no people's rule unless there is talk... words, ideas in a never-ending stream, from the enduring wisdom of the great and the good to puniest thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Granite Ledge | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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