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...same old war. And the professors are performing the same old tricks. Do not be bewitched by them! They have lost their heads. They have eaten of the insane-root. You will live long enough to prove this, for a quarter of a century from now on we shall know about this war what we now know about the last war. We are in the clutch of imperialism--and the professors have been fooled again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

...lasting several weeks, an ambulance rushed him to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. He was comatose from alcohol, and he had a compound fracture of a leg. He guessed later he must have tumbled, or maybe been kicked, down a stairway somewhere. During his three-week binge Luyhx had eaten practically nothing, and his system was so starved that no immediate surgery could be thought of. After several days it was obvious that only amputation of his leg would save his life. Bellevue's Social Service Department scraped up $165 to buy (wholesale) an artificial leg, and eventually Luyhx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The House of the Poor | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Nowhere in the official account of Captain Cook's voyages, as issued after the return of the expedition in 1784, is it charged that Captain Cook or the marines who were killed in the affray were eaten by the natives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1940 | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...each of them apart, to learn in what manner the rest of the bodies had been disposed of; and finding them very constant in one story, that, after the flesh had been cut off, it was all burnt; we at last put the direct question, whether they had not eaten some of it? They immediately shewed as much horror at the idea as any European would have done; and asked, very naturally, if that was the custom amongst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1940 | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...Branson," replied well-stomached Mr. B., "never says can't. ... I have eaten grass mowings regularly for over three years, and off many lawns. The sample I am eating at present comes off a golf green on Mitcham Common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grass Eater | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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