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...Contrary to "a quite prevalent notion that college life fosters elbow-bending," college men & women drink less than others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Drinking Man | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Safety. In Norristown, Pa., Fire Chief Miles Riley decided to keep his old-fashioned safety nets when a fireman, demonstrating the superiority of a new and improved chute, broke his elbow. In Jacksonville, the Citizens Safety Committee adjourned its meeting when a committee member rose from his chair and was knocked flat by an opening door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...roof prism is used in a gun sight's elbow telescope, which enables an anti-aircraft gunner, for example, to look horizontally into the eyepiece and see his target overhead. The elbow telescope inverts the image; the roof prism's function is to turn the image right side up. Roof prisms are thum-sized, polished crystals whose two top facets are shaped like a peaked roof. In manufacture, a piece of glass is first sawed roughly to shape, then ground to exact proportions by a delicate hand. In the final product, every facet must be absolutely flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stargazers at War | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Saloons with such names as the Alley Cat, Collar and Elbow, Pick and Shovel, Graveyard, Pay Day. >Waitresses with such names as Skip Chute, Mag the Rag, Hay ride, The Race Horse, Take-Five Annie, Ellen the Elephant, Little Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncorseted Wench | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...with Brooklyn, they gave the Dodgers the bum's rush, 8-to-2. They lost the second game on a seventh-inning homer, 3-to 2. The Sunday doubleheader, played in steam-kettle heat, was all Brooklyn, 9-to-4, 6-to-0. But townsfolk fought shin and elbow to welcome the Phillies home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Quaker Uprising | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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