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...lusty, gusty was the meeting in the jampacked upstate resort, so great the display of optimism over G.O.P. chances of carrying the State ticket for the first time in two decades that leaders had to caution delegates against overconfidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Farley Wins | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...taxes. Since then he has tried filming such abstract subjects as Emotion v. Reason. High-domed Reason is personified as an automobile driver. Emotion is a caveman chained to the back seat. When they meet a pretty girl, Emotion yells "Hey, Babe," overrules Driver Reason's caution. Again Reason yields when Emotion suggests a little drink; they wind up in jail. But as regards babies and the U.S. flag, Emotion and Reason get along fine together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher Disney | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...moment of take-off until they touched down once again on the airport. They had to learn to respect the tail gunner of an enemy bomber. But until cockiness got the better of them, and they scraped close to death, they could not learn to leaven courage with caution. And that took time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Here Come the Pilots | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...from 48 to 80% of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, of whom 10% are wholly cured. Drawback: gold is somewhat poisonous to about 17% of all cases, and several people have died from it. Yet most of New York City's 25 arthritis clinics are now using gold-with medical caution and skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress in Arthritis | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Aerial Thumbs. Army peacetime flying had been a model of sanity and caution. In the decade ending last spring the accident rate had been steadily shaved, but it had been inching up ever since the training-expansion program began. Only a few of the accidents were fatal. Seventy per cent were minor, mostly on training fields-pilots and student pilots telescoped their landing gears in hard touchdowns or chewed up wingtips in groundloops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Crashes | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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