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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More serious than this subjective terror are dislocations of the jaw, tiny compression fractures of the spine, which occurred to metrazol patients in over 40% of one series of cases. During their violent convulsions, patients arch their backs with such force that sometimes they literally crush their vertebrae.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Death for Sanity | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Metrazol. Metrazol is a powerful stimulant of the centres which regulate blood pressure, heart action and respiration. Technique of metrazol injections is simple. A patient receives no food for four or five hours. Then about five cubic centimeters of the drug are injected into his veins. In about half-a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Death for Sanity | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

More rigorous than in Great Britain itself, Canadian censorship was comparable only to the strict wartime supervision of the press in France. Under its sweeping regulations the Minister of National Defense had power to take over all communications. Forbidden was any "adverse or unfavorable statement . . . likely to prejudice the defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Canadian Secrecy | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Of the 15,000 or more college players who put on a show for U. S. football fans last Saturday, most fabulous was big, blond Paul Christman, quarterback for Missouri. In New York City's Yankee Stadium, Christman's hipper-dipper passes and lunging plunges were the margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Merry Christman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

On the football field "Passin' Paul" is as nonchalant as a co-ed over a cocktail. When he darts to the right, then spins around and throws a touchdown pass to the left, one of his favorite plays, he usually explains to his opponent: "Just a little thing we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Merry Christman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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