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When the time was announced, the Garden burst with applause, and the two FBI men hugged each other. Ashenfelter had broken the record by two-tenths of a second. Said the new champion, tapping his forehead: "It's partly in the mind. And it's also partly plain good luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: FBI Project | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk by which the pituitary hangs from the hypothalamus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Senora R. | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...which a modern New Deal should attack. Slums have continued their spread and decay. The health of those millions who cannot really afford voluntary programs is getting worse. The teacher shortage mounts everywhere. In the face of these problems, the President has done no more than wrinkle up his forehead, appoint a study commission (all have been studied for years) and mouth lofty, empty statements of concern over the "human needs" of his people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ike's First Year | 1/12/1954 | See Source »

...backfield, with five possible starters is a different story. Margarita dropped the perennial wrinkle from his forehead long enough to admit, "It's the best bunch of backs I've had since I came to Harvard...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: "They Have the Potential. . . " | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

...staintes signed by the communities of Catalonia and Valencia September 25, 1354, the extermination of informers was made a public duty, in the accomplishment of which everyone was required to render his utmost assistance... [And later] when one was convicted of informing, he was branded on the forehead with a red not iron.... In Posen a Jewish informer is said to have been sentenced to death in accordance with the verdict of a Jewish court, so also as the last decades of the eighteenth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Lubell's Letter | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

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