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...with the Gandhi [radio] speech that we tried to picture what a Western nation's leader would look like and how he would act if he were chosen according to Eastern standards. The result is the picture here shown-Mr. Hoover seated at a spinning wheel, contemplating his navel. There is no intention to ridicule anybody with this picture. It is merely meant to illustrate the great gulf that is fixed between Eastern and Western ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: McCormick's Straw | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Appendicitis should be suspected if a person, especially one under 30, has a sharp pain and a tender spot a few inches to the right of and a little below his navel; if he has fever and a furred tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: More Appendicitis | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In the Shan States he admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham met an outlandish character, was often made confidant of an outlandish story. In the teak forests of Siam he met a Frenchman, a gross fellow, who boasted of his recent prowess in venery, then seeing a copy of Verlaine's poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journeyman | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Homer nodded; Shakespeare gave Bohemia a seacoast; Michelangelo painted Adam with a navel. Last week the august New York Times slipped and fell. Readers of the Times read a pathetic story about a deer, frightened, running for its life through the streets of Brooklyn. Circumstantial was the Times reporter. Said he: "The wanderer was not a large deer, as deer go. It had a manner that plainly showed it expected very little from life", According to the Times, the deer was small, had no antlers. The story spoke of children and Santa Claus. The deer's fate was tragic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Queer Deer | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

There are two operative ways of reaching the prostate to remove the enlarged portions: 1) by opening through the perineum (crotch); 2) by cutting through the abdomen, between the navel and the joint of the pubic bones, and opening the bladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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