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...Schutzstaffel (Elite Guard) had reached well across the German border into France. Having been given full police power in the Reich and occupied territories, the Schutzstaffel plastered Paris with posters proclaiming new cruelties to the Jews. Whereupon men in German army uniforms went through the streets and tore many of the posters down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: State of Order | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Ingrate. In Baxter State Park, Me., Wild Life Protector Joseph Stickney complained that, though a crew was going through the forest tacking up No Hunting signs, a preposterous bear followed along, tore them all down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Germans tore a 50-mile gap in the south end of the Don River front Sunday and swept ahead more than 30 miles, to within 200 miles of the Volgs, lengthening the shadow of isolation over the Cancasus oil lands to the south...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire-- | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...frown rose to his face. What had it said on his card? With a gasp Vag wrenched open the brown envelope he'd been dangling and skimmed its contents. What was this: "Two signatures . . . forgotten . . . five o'clock!" With a cry of anguish Vag glanced at his watch and tore down the path. Beads of sweat stood out on his face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 6/27/1942 | See Source »

...desk, flew prodigiously, never lost his grin. Articulate, facile with words, he wrote boys' books about a young flying hero; with rugged Major General Ira Eaker as collaborator, he began turning out books about air power. But the lessons of other days had stuck. Arnold and Eaker tore no hair, snatched no lapels from their readers' coats. Their books were sound, but conservative and well hedged. If Billy Mitchell turns out not to be 100% right, neither of them has anything in print to regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR POWER: Offensive Airman | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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