The Second World War inevitably brought fresh challenges for Time and Tide. In an article published in the periodical's Twenty- First Birthday Number, just eighteen months into the war, Rhondda recorded her anxiety over ‘whether we could find enough writers of the standard we needed to keep up the paper we were in the habit of producing’ and the relief when not only ‘old friends’ but also other ‘distinguished people with a thousand other calls on their time and energy’ found time to write for the periodical (17 May 1941: 401–2). Among the ‘old friends’ who re-entered Time and Tide's columns during the war were Sylvia Lynd and Rose Macaulay, but there were new figures too. For example, Lettice Cooper, the Yorkshire novelist and Labour Party activist who joined Time and Tide's staff in November 1939 and contributed a number of feature articles on ‘Politics in the Provinces’, and the poet Stevie Smith, who contributed book reviews from 1944. As Rhondda further noted in her article for Time and Tide's Twenty-First Birthday Number, on the editorial side ‘the heaviest weight’ fell on three people: Theodora Bosanquet, in the book department; Ann Gimingham, Rhondda's assistant editor (appointed following Phoebe Fenwick Gaye's resignation in 1936); and herself (401). Through their efforts, and despite paper shortages and the loss of revenue from advertisements which ‘vanished overnight’ (410), Time and Tide managed to keep publishing every week throughout the war, albeit in a reduced ‘war format’ of twenty-four pages (21 Oct 1939: 1357): the same size in which the periodical was initially launched nearly twenty years earlier. As discussed in Part Three of this book, by the end of its second decade Time and Tide no longer carried feminism overtly in its pages, and the periodical's contents pages and indexes for issues published during the war years show that there were far more men writing for the paper than women. However, women including Odette Keun, Rose Macaulay and the crime and religious writer Dorothy L. Sayers did sometimes feature prominently in Time and Tide's ‘Notes on the Way’ column, and the periodical's Arts section continued to carry female signatures, among them Gwendolen Raverat, who remained as Time and Tide's art critic, and the detective novelist Margery Allingham, who had been reviewing ‘New Novels’ since early 1938.