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...latter part of 1939, he asserts, the Communists have killed six Chinese for every Japanese, have thrown patriots by the thousands into traitors' camps. "It is hard to understand," he comments bitterly, "how such destruction of Chinese manpower was to help in the war against Japan by the weirdest stretch of materialistic dialectic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Rivers | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...weirdest listening point in all the world of radio is probably Chungking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Enemy Voices | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Everyone was curious about the robots. An 80-year-old woman commented: "Seems horrible queer to me. I believe I'd rather 'ave bombs." A policeman, cocking a wary eye skywards, admitted: "Weirdest night I ever had." A delivery boy explained his reaction: "I don't like the idea of nobody in those planes. I don't know why, but it's sorta ghosty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Things That Go Bump | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...nation's weirdest war plant, he found such things as this: Brewster was trying to build dive-bombers for the British without complete drawings of the plane or a list of materials needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: A Prayer for Henry | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...boys on Buffalo Nose ridge, where one of the bitterest battles of the campaign was fought. He saw U.S. soldiers bayonet Jap snipers out of foxholes, blast Jap machine gunners out of their nests. And he was one of the five correspondents who saw the fighting through to "the weirdest finish in the history of modern warfare"-the way the strange little yellow men committed hara-kiri by blowing themselves to bits with hand grenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 5, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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