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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convicted of using the mails to defraud the State of $31,000 was Louisiana's ex-Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), last of the big Longsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...ever having to set foot within a museum. Holabird's cuts are hold but not obvious and strong without loss of sensitivity. The full page enclosure is a piece which would suffer but little by a comparison with George Grosz's water-color, "The Way of All Flesh" which deals with a similar theme. (Grosz's painting was exhibited in Dunster House several months...

Author: By John Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...natural for Walt Disney, for the creation of life where there was none before is his own specialty as well as Geppetto's, the wood-carver. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood has ever drawn. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his hinges, here is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...Harvard men who know what war is like, because we were in one. More, we are men not too old to bear a man's part in another if it comes. We fear war, not only as you may very properly fear it--with the shrinking of the flesh which we know from experience, and you only from Imagination--but with that greater dread which you will come to know when you, in turn, have sons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEXT OF LETTER FROM THE CLASS OF 1917 | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...cancers located near the body surface. The fluid is shot in a tiny, powerful jet from a diamond (to prevent rapid wearing away) orifice two-thousandths of an inch in diameter, at a pressure of 15,000 lb. per sq. in. Such a jet penetrates the skin, enters the flesh and spreads to a depth of nearly an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Discoveries Reported | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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