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...from schizophrenia (split personality), and schizophrenics have the power to forget their bodies, to remain for hours in one position, no matter how painful or precarious their plight. Contrasuggestibility (perversity) that also accompanies this disease was aroused by the persistent efforts to get him inside. Finally, his desire to contradict overcame his urge for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Suicide | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...watching the effect of these and other cholagogic (bile evacuating) substances on the little gall bladder of the telescope fish, Pharmacologist Viehoever hopes to be able to contradict "the dictum of the medical profession that surgery is the stones." only remedy for the removal of gall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helpful Fish | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Never stoop to contradict the socialistic sons of bitches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Two-a-Night | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...government was a revolution against the democratic regime and not against the Tsarists or long-time economic abuses, Kerensky says. When Lenin returned to Russia a month after the first revolution he hailed it as the freest country in Europe, a statement which his subsequent actions were to contradict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerensky, Ex-Russian Leader, Puts Faith in Democracy Here | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

Quieter investigation by Correspondent Matthews cleared up many other points about this greatest battle of the war. Because Rightist planes won and kept control of the air throughout the battle, there had been no reports to contradict Franco's claims and for a week the press had been misled into believing that most of Teruel had been retaken by his troops. Actually, through the ten bloody days it lasted, the Rightist counteroffensive never touched Teruel itself, got no closer than four miles from the city. Evidence from other sources indicates that the three U. S. and British correspondents with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Surrender With Honor | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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