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...Fourteen times during five hours, the gavel was slammed to bring the witness to order. Once Kilian stretched, looked at the prosecutor and stuck out his tongue. Said a G.I. onlooker: "I'd like to see one of us act like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Disorder in the Court | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Studies . . . involving thousands of low-income farm people in 17 states showed between three and four significant defects per person. Fourteen percent . . . had varicose veins. One farm operator out of every twelve had a hernia. Nineteen percent had hemorrhoids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How to Get a Doctor | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...North Carolina, the crimes of murder, arson, burglary and rape are punishable by death. Fourteen-year-old Negro Ernest Brooks committed two of them. One night a year ago he broke into a Wilmington home, raped a woman who was eight months pregnant. Caught the next day, Negro Brooks confessed, was sentenced to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Two Governors | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Fourteen Points. The week's testimony also shed light on the warning that came too late-the message Walter Short received on Dec. 7 at 2:58 p.m. Hawaiian time, informing him that the Japs were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Anatomy of Confusion | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Cache. In Pocatello, Idaho, police investigating a pool-hall theft noticed a suspicious bulge on Cecil Jones's face, forced open his mouth, extracted fourteen $20 bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1945 | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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