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...study of medical problems involved in high flying under combat conditions was one of many defense tasks undertaken during the past year by the Harvard School of Public Health, Dean Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology, said in his annual report recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EFFECTS OF HIGH ALTITUDE STUDIED | 1/23/1942 | See Source »

...drinker he prefers beer, but gets his drinking done before 6 p.m., when pubs close in most States. Actually, tea is the national drink because women seldom drink anything stronger than light Australian wines, which are sweet and thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Down Under Comes Up | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...dropped out after a phone call to his wife, one fell asleep, three appeared still sober after seven drinks. Shouted one: "Here they feed me full of this blooming bourbon when they ought to know from my looks that I am a Scotch drinker pure and simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Scientifically Drunken Drivers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...night after an earthquake Stahr found a girl who was almost a replica of his dead wife, and they were shortly having an atmospheric affair. Chafing against a hard edge of reluctance she felt in Stahr, the girl married another man. Stahr, no drinker, got dismally drunk. Fitzgerald's manuscript stops at that point. The synopsis, and notes carry the tale down to Stahr's death in an airplane crash, and its curious aftermath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Romantic | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Bruce Wilson and Buck Sheridan, the ends, are not up to the standard of last year's Captain Bowie Stanley. Dick Schmon, who would ordinarily start in place of Sheridan (a Sophomore), is hurt. While Jim Howley recovers from a splintered hand, Pen Drinker a Sophomore is filling in at tackle along with Bill Morris. They are fairly good but wouldn't make graceful ballet-dancers...

Author: By Topper Cook and Daily Princetonian, S | Title: HARLOW TACTICS TO PUZZLE NASSAU BULLIES, 'DAILY' SAYS | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

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