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...Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground fine and digestible, sieved through a faintly subacid cast of thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth and Trouble | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...Vatican-to whose service the Jesuits are specially dedicated-also anticipates material as well as spiritual contingencies, has just moved one step nearer self-sufficiency by building a grist mill behind its walls. It has had its own stocks of wheat and bread grains for some time, will grind only for the residents of 109-acre Vatican City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In the Fifth Century | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...election is the nadir of diplomatic ineptitude. It makes as little sense as pelting the British Ambassador with eggs. News of the New York development will be first priority propaganda for the Nazi radio. Such crude methods of separating radical chaff from political wheat actually supply ready-made grist for Goebbels' mill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Legion Leaps | 9/9/1942 | See Source »

...were no more ignorant or ignoble than ordinary men. Some of them taught me a lot. I learned how to palm a deck of cards, how to cook spaghetti and even some valuable information on radium from a man who was jailed on confidence-game charges." Grinding out its grist for the Army, the draft struck some other strange sparks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recruits | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Meharry Medical College of Nashville is rated A by the American Medical Association, and proud of it. It is the only U. S. school of medicine, dentistry and nursing which is exclusively for Negroes. One day, before the Civil War, one of the Meharry brothers was carting grist from the mill to his midwestern farm, when his wagon bogged down in the mud. A Negro living nearby went to his rescue, but night fell on an unbudged wagon. So Meharry accepted the Negro's offer of shelter in his hut. Next morning they freed the wagon. Said the pious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out of the Mud | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

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