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...eyes. It was not every day that a Belgian monk, trying to promote peace in the Holy Land, arrived on a world tour with a splinter from Jesucristo's own cross. Dios, what excitement! Red Cross ambulances screamed up & down, carting off women & children trampled in the crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Souvenir | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Symbolic Clock. In nearly all of the 127 plants studied, Dr. McMurry and his staff found that the worker was frustrated, made to feel like an "inferior creature, a number in a department." The indignities of the factory caste system, he declares, crush the worker's ego-"The time clock is a beautiful symbol of servitude." Workers are constantly galled by rules which assign them to dining rooms and toilets inferior to their bosses', and leave them, to scramble for space in the parking lot where stalls are reserved for executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother Union | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Judging by what happened in Washington, it may well break the 2,500,000 attendance record set by last year's traveling exhibition of masterpieces from the Berlin Museum. The opening day's crush made even Manhattan's gum-cracking Daily News sit up and take notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Crush & Culture | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...executive, who is primarily a rugged individualist, must crush his ego for group decisions "in order to be one of the boys." Said Dr. Slight: "Thus the aggressive vitality drive that makes the executive ambitious is thwarted, and it must go somewhere, so it goes inside, producing diarrhea, headaches, blurring of vision ringing in the ears," and ultimately ulcers,* high blood pressure, or both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Better Snarl a Bit | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Wait a second--don't fall--you'll crush my egg sandwich Mountaineers have a peculiar sense of humor...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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