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...sinks in the West and the nurse shoves a thermometer in my face, I reluctantly say farewell to the lovely land of green eyeshades and printer's ink. It's been a real nice clambake and-who knows-maybe we'll bump into each other again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No More Elastic | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...such a rampant epidemic, the schools might have been closed. But Dr. Gimby's skullcaps virtually checked the spread. Even if roughhousing boys bump heads, the caps prevent the transfer of broken, infected hairs. Each child has to have three clean caps a day. Mother has to boil them every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Itchy Town | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Though there is already an opportunity for inter-school contact over the plastic food trays and modernistic armchairs of Harkness Commons, dining halls are notoriously cliquish places. It is in the corridors and the communal washrooms that minds are most likely to rub, or bump together, and it is there that they should be mixed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: There's the Rub | 10/10/1950 | See Source »

...They Like Girls' Pictures." Roy Manring and his platoon were defending a position near Hill 303, a bleak bump in the terrain east of the Naktong River, a few miles northeast of battered Waegwan, when the enemy began to infiltrate the U.S. lines. Roy's platoon leader asked battalion headquarters for reinforcements, and was told that 60 South Korean soldiers would move up shortly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre at Hill 303 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Your May 29 Science article describes Dr. Gardiner Bump of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an excited and hopeful man looking forward to his experience with the bustard in the Southwestern desert. As a member of the Desert Rats, I view Dr. Bump's enthusiasm with alarm. The crime he intends to perpetrate upon our Southwest is far more serious than that wreaked upon Cambridge and Boston by the lad who introduced pigeons into that region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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