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Into the respectable wholesale drug house of John Wyeth & Bro., Inc. stumbled Fred Barrick last month. Waving an official Government order blank signed by Dr. Anders, he demanded 500 half-grain tablets of morphine sulphate, enough to choke a team of horses. Since Government order blanks are for the personal use of physicians who purchase narcotics wholesale for office use, the druggists promptly called the narcotic squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...child gnaws on his rattle or chews his doll, if he crams his mouth with building blocks or paper, don't let him choke, but otherwise leave him alone. The mouth is an "important organ of investigation." Such was the advice Psychiatrist Alexander Reid Martin gave to dentists and public health specialists at a meeting on child dentistry in Manhattan last week. Parents who keep snatching things from their children's mouths not only prevent infants from exercising their jaws, but also cramp the development of personality, for a child's first "satisfactions and pleasures, his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Emotions and Teeth | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...dancing." A good wrestler can lick a jiu-jitsu expert any time, provided the combatants don't wear jackets while fighting, Pat declared. The art of jiu-jitsu is used to teach detectives, army and navy officers, G-men, and policemen how to disarm a man, and the numerous choke holds are the basis of the art. Choke holds cannot be used unless the opponent is wearing a jacket or coat which can be used as a lever to twist across the throat. "Without these jackets, the jiu-jitsu man hasn't a chance with a regular wrestler," Pat declared...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER ? | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...stage them businessmen have dug down for millions of dollars, politicians have played their cards, engineers have sweated, architects have dreamed, press agents have run wild, artists have cried aloud. Located smack in the centres of the two greatest metropolitan areas in the U. .S., each will choke its already surfeited neighborhood with milling millions of citizens out for a good time. To each will come travelers seeking knowledge of the world and its wonders. So runs the half-meretricious, half-genuine promise of World's Fairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pacific Pageant | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...favor automatic choke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: Thought-Starter | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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