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...zero hour approached in the battle of Europe, both sides were agog last week over secret weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Secret Weapons | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter Pan and an even better Alice in Wonderland, with décor modeled on the famed Tenniel illustrations, and statuesque Dame Sybil Thorndike as the White Queen. Half of London is agog to see Sybil "on wires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Quiet but Happy | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

News of the week: Company Baker is all agog over the drastic plan for reorganization of the NTS rat-race . . . it is rumored that everyone is moving ashore the first of the month, with the possible exception of Company Dog . . . they're telling around that most of the local mugs will be billeting at the Commander in a surprise merger with the Supply WAVES!!! . . . Now, pleeeaaasee don't quote me, pal, but I heard a fellow behind me in our first class this morning and he was bumpin' his gums, giving his gang the row-down . . . Oh, yeah...

Author: By Ensign GUY Osborn, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/18/1944 | See Source »

...hands. They all have the air-talk habit. A handsome New England prep school at Sheffield, Mass., Berkshire this year generated unwonted zip in its student body by teaching them to fly as a regular part of the curriculum. This week 40 fledglings in this pioneering airprep school were agog over the first of their number to take his test for a pilot's license. With 35 hours of soloing, 17-year-old James D. Geier of Cincinnati had beaten out his headmaster. Headmaster Albert Keep still has only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Airprep | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Wellesley is agog. It happened last week when a couple of jokers from Harvard Med, after a winter at Norumbega Hall, got bright ideas. So on their evening run they slurk up with an embryo, human, happily pickled in a bottle of alcohol, with a note giving it "back to the girls it came from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pass the Foetus, Doctor, We Are Off to Wellesley Hills | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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