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...clue to a mystery that has puzzled ulcer specialists-why do four times as many men as women have ulcers? Examining the stomach of a 21-year-old Negro girl through a surgical hole in the stomach wall (made for feeding the patient after she had accidentally swallowed some lye), Drs. Russell J. Crider and Shepard M. Walker of Washington University found that the girl's stomach was quieter and secreted less gastric juice when she was angry or upset than when she was in normally good spirits. This is just the reverse of the tightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Many Operations? | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...bucket of hot lye solution to Mr. Johnson for the wonderful gangster indoctrination he has given American youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Terminating a long period of happy obscurity, the Society for the Preservation of the Species hits the airwaves tonight at 9:30 over WRCN. "The program will be humorous," said Theodore B. Turner '49, Digger Lye, tersely last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Society Takes Ether Tonight in Struggle To Preserve Species | 5/8/1947 | See Source »

...economic life of the Empire grow stronger or weaker. Through more than 400 subsidiaries operating more than 800 factories in 37 countries (notable exception: Soviet Russia), Unilever dominates the world's soap and margarine businesses. It also sells ice cream, baby food, rubber, cocoa, salad oil, lye, paper, candles, copra, perfume, toothpaste, vitamins, fish, silks, cattle cake, fertilizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Old Empire, New Prince | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Most illuminating are the shots made under the direction of brilliant, free-lance New Zealander Len Lye (Kill or Be Killed, Colour Box), which make up the bulk of the film. Lye's Dublin streets, obsessed faces and magical landscapes (made largely in bleak Galway) capture depths of mysticism which are beyond the reach of most words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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