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...Germany last week there was no such thing as news, as U. S. editors understand it. Informed the German people might be, but what they swallowed was a carefully winnowed, ground, boiled, predigested gruel, designed to nourish but not invigorate their minds. The Nazi press was free from "foreign lies," free to support the Reich's worldwide program of expansion-but not free to publish what it pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Enlightened Germans | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...recent Japan as whales in the Mississippi) broke out in the Diet. Three weeks ago Takao Saito said the country was tired of war. Then Kiroku Oguchi said some of Japan's shortages and hardships could be avoided if the light industries, with the vital export trade they nourish, were not sacrificed for the sake of war industries. Last week Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita was repeatedly criticized. And Ryozo Makino bitterly attacked War Minister Shunroku Hata for keeping military finances secret. "The people are uneasy," warned Member Makino. But War Minister Hata bluntly refused to reveal military expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Cannae, Tannenberg, Nanning | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Testicles consist of two types of tissue, seminal tubules, which produce spermatozoa, and interstitial cells, lying between the tubules. The interstitial cells produce sex hormones which tone up the whole body, stimulate masculine characteristics. Both types of tissue, according to Steinach, nourish at the expense of the other. Hence he conceived the idea of stimulating hormone flow by damming up the "antagonistic" seminal canals. This he did by ligating (tying off) and severing the main duct of the canals, known as the vas deferens. This "Steinach vasoligature" is a simple operation, takes only 20 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What Am I Doing? | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...millions for another Versailles, another poor peace, yet another war? Anthony Eden took to the radio and said to the world: "The Nazi System and all that it has implied (naked aggression . . . cynical dissimulation . . . flagrant mockery . . . lawlessness . . . bloodshed . . . ) must go." The Nazis purged, said he, civilization might again nourish-"for some forces are bigger than men. And in that new civilization will be found liberty and opportunity and hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: // Faut en Finir | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...California), is rich in gold and oil, and its 52,000,000 people produce four harvests a year. Rice, wheat, barley, millet, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, beans and cotton make up its harvests. Neighboring Yunnan has tin, copper, iron and coal, and its mulberry leaves are juicy enough to nourish a great silk industry. Kweichow is up-tilted country, good for cattle raising and orchards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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