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...bombing of London is only horrid hearsay. Most of them stayed at great altitude because their converted Messerschmitts, with a red line painted on the windscreen for a "bomb sight," were no good for precision work and, anyway, the purpose of their "total" war was indiscriminate damage and terror among London's civilian populace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Higher & Fewer | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...tongues of other and bigger whales, often tear them out alive. He never believed it until he saw it done. Off the coast of Korea, a pack of killers bore down on a herd of California grey whales, which are about 50 ft. long. The greys were paralyzed with terror. "I watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against the whale's lips, forced its mouth open, and tore out great chunks of the soft, sponge-like tongue. A half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Believe-lt-Or-Nots | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...spread propaganda which brutal men believe will instill terror in the hearts and minds of women and children can serve no useful purpose to the American way of life. To depict a man in the character of a German hurling insults at our American citizenry could only serve a god of hatred, m contrast to our God of Love. It would tend to stir up strife and resentment, resulting in possible attack upon some innocent American citizens of German descent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ramparts in Pennsylvania | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Between 1890 and 1910 Chicago boomed again, gained 1,000,000 new citizens. "As in previous boom eras," records Asbury, "the underworld more than kept pace. . . ."A reign of terror arose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down the Cesspool | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Only by the free flow of goods everywhere, so that each may make and sell that which he is best able to and so that each may buy at the lowest prices those goods which he has not at hand can the terror-breeding plight of the have-nots be eliminated in any future peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Oct. 7, 1940 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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