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...every phrase in [Hitler's speech]. ... It touched upon a great many topics and covered a wide field," said the Prime Minister, in a voice so low that diplomats in the gallery had to crane to catch his words. But Mr. Chamberlain had apparently taken time enough to comb out of Hitler's formless harangue every conciliatory crumb of comfort it contained. These he singled out for special praise. "I very definitely got the impression," the Prime Minister went on, "that it was not the speech of a man who was preparing to throw Europe into another crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Deeds, Not Words | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

When ointment containing male sex hormones is rubbed into the comb of a capon, the listless, bedraggled cock gradually turns into a lusty, strutting rooster. Reason; the hormones are absorbed into his bloodstream. When Dr. George L. Foss of the Royal Infirmary at Bristol, England learned that this direct application of hormones to a capon's comb is 200 times more effective than injections, he decided last summer to try it on impotent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormone Massage | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Then I bring a comb, part your hair smoothly, and make it pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoop Collector | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...worth of marked $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills to a man with a flashlight. The man promised "Skeegie" would be returned promptly. As that day and the next passed, the Princeton crowds grew ugly. They began going out in posses to beat the tangled Florida bushland, to comb coastal bayous, jungled keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Atrocious Revival | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Using a super-sensitive apparatus containing a C electric battery, a galvanometer, and a photoelectric cell he was able to record the amount of deflection in the current caused by the comb, which was separated from his instrument by 20 ft. of open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

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