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...specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar oil be spread over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kushumma & Kushippu | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Cliffe girls will definitely not be able to sign out at 11 p.m. this year, as the Radcliffe Student Council yesterday killed an extended hour motion, 141/2 to 7. Cedar Hill 'Cliffe student conference, had recommended the later hour on a trial basis...

Author: By Carlotta G. Shipman, | Title: Radcliffe Council Vetoes 11 p.m. Sign-Out Motion | 9/30/1953 | See Source »

...poll conducted by the Radcliffe News last year indicated that a majority of the college was in favor of the later hour. The vote at Cedar Hill for the recommendation was 32 to 12. But several people said that they had voted for the motion only so that the Council could consider it, not so that it would pass...

Author: By Carlotta G. Shipman, | Title: Radcliffe Council Vetoes 11 p.m. Sign-Out Motion | 9/30/1953 | See Source »

Hecht's first half-hour show, a tale about "the big heart of Broadway" coming to the rescue of a young couple from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was as loaded with corny sentiment as with talk. Says Author Hecht: "We had to make the first one very sentimental because we used it to sell the sponsor [Willys Motors]." His second show last week was on the more Hechtian subject of hate; it told how a woman who has spent ten years in jail for shooting the other woman in a domestic triangle completes the job by plugging her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Upper Hand | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...business sessions, the president and founder of the International Moslem Society, Abdallah Igram, 30, a grocery-store operator from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, led delegates through a simple agenda. One executive board decision: to pay the cost of special identification tags for American Moslems in military service which will read, "I am a Moslem. There is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." Igram was re-elected president for another year. Anxious to unite all scattered North American Moslems (estimated at 32,600) in his society, he disclaims militant proselytizing: "We don't want to convert others, just inform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Moslems | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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