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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive tract -all especially common in the lower economic groups. One reason for this prevalence, said the doctor, is the "banal" fact of widespread tooth decay, or "in plain English, a dirty mouth." Improper chewing and constant swallowing of infected matter produce dangerous physical and chemical irritation of the digestive tract. Prevention of this form of cancer involves a change "in mode and habits of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Controllable Cancers | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...Today men grappled German mine were bringing it over side but not fast enough. I leaned over side and seized cable to help. Opened my mouth to give orders and upper and lower plates fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: At Sea: Voice From Grimsby | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...dedication broadcast set a neighborly good example for regular broadcasts to follow. From Hollywood came a variety program with Master of Ceremonies Edward G. Robinson manfully speaking side-of-the-mouth Spanish, Ronald Colman, Rita Hayworth (nee Cansino), Jinx Falkenburg and other film figures contributing their best. South American stars in Washington and Manhattan did themselves proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: La Cadena | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Bock As Well As Forth. The new network was not laid out to be a one-way street. At present only one regular broadcast originating outside of the U.S. is carried over CBS-a weekly Calling Pan America program-but the network hopes for more. Working mouth in microphone with CBS is Nelson Rockefeller's Office for the Coordination of Inter-American Affairs, which supplies programs and suggestions. For instance, Dr. Julio Barata, Brazilian radio chief (TIME, March 30), now makes a five-minute broadcast daily from Manhattan in which he comments on U.S. news for Brazilian listeners, calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: La Cadena | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...handmaiden of psychology, pos-sibly revealing important traits, attitudes, values of the "hidden" personality. Research for medical graphology (which studies handwriting for symptoms of nervous diseases) already indicates that handwriting is more than muscular. Most re-assuring observation: people who lose their upper extremities, then learn to write with mouth or toes, retain in their new mouth-or foot-writing the essential characteristics of their original handwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Handwriting As Character | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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