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...registers ringing in motels, hotels, restaurants, drugstores and movie houses. Mrs. Jessel herself is the proprietor of 13 cabins where patients who need more than one treatment can put up for $35 a month. District doctors acknowledge that some patients may receive "psychological benefit"; beyond that they can only fume at the danger that ill people who need proper medical treatment may be persuaded, by a visit to Susie's, that they do not need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Straw for the Drowning | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Governor Herman Talmadge's press conference last week was merely routine -until some one asked the big question: What will Georgia do if the U.S. Supreme Court outlaws segregation in the schools? At that, the governor began to fume. Georgia, said he, might well turn "the public schools over to a private system. It is the only thing we can do ... If we don't do this. I have not got enough national guardsmen and the Federal Government enough troops to prevent strife. Blood will flow in rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When the Barriers Fall | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...that . . . Pidgin English has become a language in its own right, and no matter how many pious sentiments are expressed in the U.N. or elsewhere, its use and continued spread cannot be curbed." In other words, no matter how much busybody ol man bilog pies longwey (foreigners) fuss and fume, ol man bilong Nugini will go right on making toktok as they please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Insuperable Pidgin? | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...scientists maintain, however, that drinking in a fume-filled room will lead to intoxication more quickly than imbibing one's alcohol in the fresh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Experimenters Prove Alcohol Not Intoxicating in Vaporous Form | 6/2/1951 | See Source »

...perform. The trailers' size (biggest is 32 ft. 3⅜ in. long, carries 25,000 Ibs.) plus the bad road manners of many of their drivers have helped stir up anti-trucking sentiment around the U.S., and given Fruehauf one of its biggest headaches. But though motorists fume, truckers think that trailers are just about the greatest invention since the gasoline engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Trailer King | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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