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...years of my life are slipping by on stealthy feet at nightfall; there is a footprint in the dark, a bell strikes 12, and the flying year has gone. . . . The great play is yet unwritten; the great novel beats with futile hands against the portals of my brain. Proud fool! . . . Shall my dust taste better than a peddler's when the worms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother and Son | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Spring is in Boston at last, so remember the words of the bard, "If music be the food of love, play on!" And Shakespeare was nobody's fool. We'll see you there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electronics School | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

WANTED: A high speed camera that will be fast enough to catch Milton Gerson in his room at any time of day or night when he hasn't taken his shoes off . . . A fool proof invention on that would cover the hat changing problem. A quick presto! changoo! affair with three colors . . . Escalators to the top deck of all dormitories for us short-winded lads, . . . A phone that is not within two feet of a main entrance of a dorm . . . Some real music to accompany the movies on Tuesday nights instead of the excuse offered for the same that accompanies...

Author: By S. O. Melvin parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company D | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

...business of getting Henry and his girl to and from a high-school dance is like moving an armored division into battle. If Henry plays an April Fool prank, it is virtually certain to assume vast, unanticipated proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: What a Family | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...labor chieftains had been quietly taken aside and shown some startling figures. Among them were some Labor Department statistics showing that in the last quarter of 1942, the average hourly earnings of all manufacturing workers rose 2.3%. In the same period farm prices went up 9.2%. This was a fool's race; labor's wages could never go up as fast as farm prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Behind the Scenes | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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