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Those who register or are reclassified in July should have the information blanks sent them by the college filled in before leaving for home. It's too late now to shift into the study of poison gas from the less lethal material dispensed in other departments, and it's too late to raise your Math A mark. Newspaper reports on whether the present draftees come back and how many new camps are built are the best guide to chances of ending your college career with a regular diploma. All the neophyte registrants can and should do is to make sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First of July | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

...been a lethal morning. Dead lay four men: Prison Guard John Hartye, Patrolman Fagan, Convict Waters, and Convict Miller, who had died of excitement in his hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sing Sing Break | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Manager William B. Dolph and Program Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from the GPU and Gestapo ever since he spilled bushels of Communazi beans in his best-selling Out of the Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: In Again, Out Again | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Almost as annoying to the Nazis as the Beggars' lethal pranks is the uncompromising stiff-neckedness of all Hollanders. Typical of the Dutch attitude was the banquet given for the Germans by the Burgomaster of Breda, Barthelomeus W. Th. van Slobbe, onetime Governor of Curacao and a student of history. Compelled to throw an official party for the invaders, Van Slobbe served up a curious meal, topped it off with a flowery archaistic speech. Next day the Germans found he had copied menu and oratory verbatim from a similar occasion after the French conquered Breda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Beggars Underground | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Sternutators cause sneezing and vomiting, and were occasionally used in the last war because they penetrated the then crude gas masks, produced their irritations, caused men to remove masks and fall victim to more lethal gases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Will Chemistry Fight? | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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