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It is rather nauseating to be over here in Egypt and read about the new female army, the female navy and the female air force, if any, which conglomerations are undergoing activation in the old country. (Even if these female uprisings were not occurring, it is still nauseating to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: A Mess, Anyhow | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

The first cellular growth of the new U.S. Army was complete before Pearl Harbor. More than 1,700,000 men were under arms, had been parceled out to tactical divisions, behind-the-lines outfits, housekeeping commands. Last week the cells were in division; the Army was off on another multiplication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: War Babies | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Thirty-eight days before activation, the C.O. and his staff arrive at the camp where the division is to be trained. There they get acquainted, lay plans. Six days later the other top officers, along with 72 seasoned noncoms from trained regiments, pull in. More noncoms-1,118 corporals and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: War Babies | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

The receiving set was hidden in the shallow top of the table, one leg of which was equipped as an aerial, another as a ground. The phenomena were produced by the activation of an electromagnet which attracted pieces of metal cleverly hidden in the performing objects. There was even a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghostbusting | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

At 4.30 o'clock this afternoon Professor Albert Brachet will give a lecture in the Geological Lecture Room on "Activation and Fertilization of the Egg." Professor Brachet is director of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Brussels, Belgium. His lecture, which will be given under the auspices of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brachet to Lecture | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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