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...dragging anti-tank guns. Across the fields refugees run desperately carrying whatever they can. Desperately they pile on trains. Sometimes German planes machine-gun the trains. There are gruesome shots of a young Polish woman clutching the train seat in her death spasm, a father shot through chest and abdomen sitting helplessly between his hopeless wife and frightened, bewildered little girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Under a hot lamp in the green-tiled operating room, the patient lay masked and draped in white. Only a six-inch patch of iodine-stained abdomen was exposed. Although numbed below the waist by a spinal anesthetic, he could hear everything that was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operation on the Air | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Ladies from Hell" roll their stockings high, like U. S. college girls. But they deny the War Office contention that kilts take too much wool, and they insist that the kilt is more healthful for Scots than trousers because they are accustomed to a warm wrapping for the abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Spot o' Plumbin' | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Propaganda Roundup," transcription of foreign broadcasts in English. From these and from foreign language broadcasts monitored and translated, the U. S. public has had an earful of typical atrocity stories, mainly from the German radio. Samples: "Today a highly pregnant German woman . . . was kicked in the abdomen by Polish beasts until she died at the wayside"; "a four-year-old boy was torn away from his mother . . . his hand was cut off and he was left to die in the ditch." Another atrocity charged to Poland was the murder of a girl in New Jersey, in connection with which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight, bothered by a heaviness in her belly at night, the old woman screwed up her courage to see Dr. Joseph Gilbert Israel, crack Detroit gynecologist. Dr. Israel palpated her abdomen, discovered a hard, round object like a baseball. His first astonished thought was that she, aged 66, was going to have a baby. But the object was too hard to be a living baby's head. Besides it was outside the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lithopedian | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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