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Nature's Submarines: Under-Water Travel is the only Sphere in which. Nature Holds the Speed Record

... SSS^SS5S5SSSS5S22HHH^25^S Nature's Submarines U nder-Water Travel is the only Sphere in which. Nature Holds the Speed Record By Frank W. Lane IF the Nazis could have made a submarine which would travel under water as successfully as a fish they might well have won the Battle of the Atlantic. The best a submarine can do when travelling beneath the surface is around twenty knots, There are some ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1125 | Page: Page 22, 64 | Tags: Photographs 

Tempelhof Picnic: Memories of a Perfect Day

... X Tempelhof Picnic Memories ol a Perfect Day By Day Russell X-- faitdnnidaJ(>\>(L IT was the afternoon of one of those days when the English weather, in a fit of repentance for its sins, produces an unforgettable inter lude of loveliness. It was not just a hot afternoon in summer, it had a warm, enveloping beauty, a softness, a laziness that just suited the mood of the boys on the terrace. The ...

Get Your Teeth Into It

... TACKLE your tooth problem with verve, and at once. Go to see your dentist if you have not paid him a visit for the last year. Telephone for the appointment now. Do not think of it as an appointment with fear, but as an appointment with health. Although the phase has passed of drawing all teeth tor an illness which is due to body toxins, it is still fairly safe to say that the toxins caused ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 952 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

Baby On The Move

... BJL On ZL Wove ONE doesn't travel for choice with a young baby in war and in winter, but in these unpredictable times it sometimes has to be. Do not embark on the undertaking without a well-planned routine in order to ensure comfort for the baby and peace of mind for yourself. An unruffled mother is the first essential for the baby's comfort and ease. This is possible only if every reasonable ...

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... fooled with love and never took it seriously. And yet, of course, there was Old Bill, who was infatuated with Maud, the performing mule of his act, and there was Pat, the animal trainer, who caressed his leopards as though they were kittens instead of 6oo-lb. unpredictable beasts. And then there was Harold of the Nicolls' tumbling troupe, who was infatuated with Zira, the Persian girl. And ...

Foreign Wives: The Romance of Wartime Weddings

... Foreign Wives The Romance of Wartime Weddings By C. Patrick Thompson I SHOULD say that mostly it has been a case of 'Jeg elsker deg'-- 'Ja'-- 'De levet lykkelig sammen i alle ar.' Like in the fairy stories. I invited my Norwegian companion to turn his fairv story into basic English. Well, our boy meets the English girl, and one day he says 'I love you.' Then they go to the minister and she ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2621 | Page: Page 15, 63, 64 | Tags: Photographs 

YEAR OF RETURN: On its Threshold, how many Millions of Families Are Thinking, We'll See Him Again This Year

... Year of Return On its Threshold, how many Millions of Families Are Thinking, We'll See Him Again This Year By Ferdinand Tuohy TO peer ahead into 1945 is to sense the imminence of mammoth happenings. One does not need to be clairvoyant to discern the outline of great battles and upheavals, of epic personal dramas and historic moves. A year to remember, the new '45, one in which sensation ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1599 | Page: Page 18, 56 | Tags: Photographs 

Old Tales Re-told: The Trice of Glory; Incidents from the Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi

... Old Tales Re-told The Trice of (jlory Incidents from the Life of (fiuseppe Qaribaldi THERE have been few great leaders and conquerors who, despite their high ideals, have not been inspired to a certain extent by personal ambition. An endless procession of heroes leaps to mind-- Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Macedonians, Romans of all epochs, glorious names recalling glorious feats of arms ...

From The Olden Days: England's Romantic Half-Timbered Buildings

... From The Olden Days j England's Romantic Half -Timbered Buildings By C. A. Stevenson DATING from the Tudor and Stuart periods England possesses many half-timber buildings distinguished by superb craftsmanship. Using native material easily accessible, the old wrights, heedless that their methods might one day be archaic, built solidly and well, intending their work to endure for a thousand ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 864 | Page: Page 31, 60 | Tags: Photographs 

BETTER WALL PAPER ON THE WAY

... s rl EIIER WALL i pi i V PAPER OA THE WAYl WALLPAPER has been badly hit by the war. After a long phase in which fashion decreed that walls should be plain and paperless, the pendulum had begun to swing until, just before the outbreak of war, decorators were making inspired use of wallpaper, and women everywhere were beginning to appreciate its interest, when tastefully handled. But since the ...