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Occupational Hazard. In Mexico City, Cobbler Inocencio Rosa Cortes took one despairing look at an impossibly battered pair of shoes, screamed, stabbed himself ten times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 22, 1947 | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...radioactive world, nobody ever feels completely safe. Radioactivity, a stealthy, silent horror that is neither felt nor seen, is both a mental and a physical hazard. Last week the U.S. had a small sample of the radioactivity fear that may become commonplace in the Atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radioactivity Scare | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Hook. In Texarkana, Ark., Dr. J. A. Little golfed to the shallow part of a water hazard, took a healthy swing, nib-licked high & dry one four-pound bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Freezing is not the only hazard in an earthworm's uncertain life: burrowing beetles, bloodthirsty slugs, spiders and porcupines are all constant menaces. Worms stay below ground until nightfall, when they can safely emerge to do their courting and prowling. Living such a life, the earthworm is intensely nervous and sensitive to the slightest vibration of danger. Though blind, it has learned to pick up the tremors of an approaching sparrow and to snap back into its hole like a rubber band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Earthworm | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

First prize-$600 and a gold medal-went to pretty, rosy-cheeked Jessie Hazard Smith, an Edmonton housewife. Her dish: Alberta Gold Medal ranch steak, cut off the fillet, rump, sirloin or tenderloin, dipped in salad oil, grilled in a hot pan from eight to twelve minutes, spread with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkled with salt & pepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: Thousand-Dollar Steaks | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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