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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn them out neck and crop if he thinks he can better his temper or his home thereby. . . ." Churchill found few differences between the Conservative and Liberal Parties ("There is scarcely a Liberal sentiment which animated the great Liberal leaders of the past which we do not inherit and defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Utopias & Nightmares | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

General Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower, responding to an appeal for blood donations, stood in line with other volunteers, gave his pint. As he was leaving, a soldier recognized him, cracked: "Hey, that would be the blood to get." Said Ike: "If you do, I hope you don't inherit my bad disposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ladies of Fashion | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Woman is also the stronger sex. Though her muscular strength is only half that of a man, she is a much more efficient organism for survival. Her hormones protect her better against illness and shocks. Boys are more likely to inherit physical defects; a third more of them are blind; eight times as many are colorblind; hemophilia is exclusively a male disease. Although women have a 20% higher illness rate in almost every disease, men have a much higher death rate (an exception: 40% more women die during the course of dementia praecox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Male & Female | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Like his penguins, anti-Darwinist Gerald Heard believes that the meek do indeed inherit the earth, and that the strong end up as fossils. He also believes that men might live as harmoniously as his penguins if they would learn to contemplate like Quakers and to aspire to extrasensory experience like Brahmin Yogis. Since 1937, Expatriate Heard has been expounding these doctrines from a home in Laguna Beach. Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystical Mysteries | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...Bill" triumphed over ten fat volumes of charges of moral turpitude: his Senate colleagues voted (52-10-30) to ignore the whole thing. Last week, having maneuvered Senator Nye into a three-cornered primary fight, Slippery Bill stumped the state with his own hand-picked candidate. He hoped to inherit: 1) control of two seats in the U.S. Senate; 2) all of North Dakota's Federal patronage; 3) overlordship of Bismarck's 19-story State Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eighteenth Year | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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