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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-Adlermann Sirs: With reference to Emil Adlermann's letter in [the Sept. 9] issue, p. 4, the "God Strafe England" paragraph stamps him as a Hun and true to type. May I ask him which God is to strafe England? The Christian God-the God of the universe-whom the Nazis have repudiated, or the mythical German gods which Hitler sometimes calls upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 30, 1940 | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...held last night by the American Student Defense League, Harvard Chapter. But this League will not die soon, for it is undeniably riding the crest of a great wave of U. S. public opinion. It will last and probably grow, until no one will think any longer to ask the bothersome question, "What place is there for this group here?" Now, if ever, is the time to ask it, to inquire whether the League really seeks the utmost efficiency in defense, while still clinging to its stated "purpose of peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFEND AND PRESERVE US | 9/28/1940 | See Source »

...roads and rail lines with refugees. Britain's rear would then be meat for total war. The censors permitted the New York Herald Tribune's Edward Angly to cable at week's end: "It would be a poor observer or propagandist who would now ask America to believe that London is still doing business as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Softer, Softer, Softer | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Last week, the Clacks went to Manhattan to appear on a radio program. Said Mrs. Clack: "I told him he mustn't ask me to drain abscesses on children. I couldn't stand seeing them suffer." Then one day the Clacks were called to treat a baby with an abscess "as big as a teacup." That case changed her mind, "because after I helped him the baby didn't suffer any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blind Doctor | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...while they are in toothless condition; 2) having their new teeth change their facial appearance. Nowadays good dentists, with patience and ingenuity, allay such apprehensions. Last week Dr. Oswald M. Dresen of Marquette University Dental School, addressing the American Dental Association convened in Cleveland, observed that many prosthodontists now ask their patients for snapshots. If a patient has no good picture of himself, said Dr. Dresen, the dentist is likely to turn portrait photographer and take some himself. Purpose: to help the dentist recreate the patient's facial expression as nearly as possible. Besides photography, several other techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: False Teeth | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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