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Died. John Robert Gregg, 80, inventor of Gregg shorthand; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He developed his own shorthand as a note-taking schoolboy in Ireland, published his first manual at 20, came to the U.S. to teach five years later, lived to see his system taught in an estimated 95% of U.S. commercial and public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...initials of Henry A. Wallace . . . spell HAW, I suggest as his party's emblem the Haw tree (Viburnum prunifolium), specifically the Black Haw, sometimes called the Stag Bush. Should any artist wish to paint this phenomenon of nature, I give him Charles Sprague Sargent's description (Manual of the Trees of North America; Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic Church. On ordinary days rising hour is 2 a.m. (it is earlier on Sundays and feast days). Seven hours are devoted to sleep, about seven to the Divine Office and Mass, one hour to meals, four hours to study and private prayers, usually five hours to manual labor. Except when sick, Trappists* eat no meat, fish, eggs; unless they are giving necessary directions for labor, monks without special assignment may not speak, except to their superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hard Peace | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...purchasers-laboratory workers -prepared a Manual of Instructions for Owners of Canvas Shoes: 1) keep shoes in hermetically sealed place, preferably under glass; 2) do not wear at temperature higher than -12° Centigrade [10° Fahrenheit]; 3) best of all, don't wear them at all, as it is bad for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: All God's Chillun | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...flown 102 times during World War II for the Chinese National Aviation Corp., the plane bounced and tossed. Blue St. Elmo's fire glowed eerily from propellers and wing tips. His automatic pilot went out. For the rest of the way, he had to fly by manual control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Towhead's Ambition | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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