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...rupees-My first bill at the Cecil, which is really a great hotel. But they've run out of Western whiskies, so now they are serving such tiger wash as "Dew of the Himalayas." They have no beer either, but only stout. Our Bill Fisher likes stout, but he's a Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...party will then tour the University and visit Widener and Houghton libraries, through which they will be shown by Keyes DeW. Metcalf, Director of the University Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAN-AMERICAN NEWSMEN TO TOUR COLLEGE | 12/3/1942 | See Source »

...dawn broke clean and sharp. In their cages near by, two lions stretched, began their endless prowling. A caged cock pheasant woke screaming. A hare ran quickly over the brittle, dew-smirched summer grass. Stripped to the waist, two men faced each other -one young (32), lean and handsome, the other older (51), swarthy, heavy-shouldered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: A Pheasant Screamed | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Rush Dew Holt, 36, ex-Senator from West Virginia, ex-isolationist, passed his draft board's physical exam, was ordered to report for a final checkup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bundles for Brownie | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...when the U.S. first adopted daylight time as a war measure, farmers were the loudest objectors. The cow, they cried, is a delicately balanced creature, yields less milk for defense when her hours are disturbed. The dew, they insisted, stays on the grass until 9 a.m. (10 a.m. daylight saving time), and farmers cannot work their fields until the dew dries. Rising before dawn, they declared, they would be dog-tired long before day's end. Said New York's blue-blood dairyman Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth: "Your net gain is fatigue for the farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: You've Got To Get Up | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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