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Citizen Rubens, who seemed in good health with only normal prison pallor, said finally in reply to Charge d'Affaires Henderson that there was nothing the U. S. Embassy could do to make her more comfortable or assist her. "Thank you," she concluded, "I need no help." In an effort to explain why U. S. Citizen Rubens refused help against the Secret Police who have got her in jail, Walter Duranty cabled: "I know the system. It is not hypnotism but the establishment of a moral ascendancy. If that is not clear ask a psychoanalyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moral Ascendancy | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...members to sign a pledge book in the library; caring not a whit, seemingly, how many members choose to donate anything. Lowell House capitalizes on its dances, relying on these profits for its funds, though the criticism is prevalent that such a method tends to cast too commercial a pallor over something that should be free from the money taint. Adams swings to the other extreme in demanding the presentation of a card, obtainable at a set price, for the use of the library and common room. In short, these houses offer dissimilar and often impractical ways and means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREASING THE HOUSE WHEELS | 11/24/1936 | See Source »

Nevertheless, with the maternal support of France, even then seeking security, the awkward Russian giant was soon again admitted to the diplomatic drawing-rooms of Europe. The wounds of 1905 had not healed, nor were they over to heal, but the pallor of the collosus was easily forgotten at the sound of his booming voice. Even Mother France continually pumping her own financial blood into his arteries, was charmed and deceived by roars of rage and hunger. From Mongolia and Afghanistan and Bulgaria these cries came. Tomorrow at ten Professor Karpovitch will classify and interpret them in Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

...oranges, were included in the shipment referred to in the article, and in addition to that, Brogdex is applicable to apples and pears-large quantities of both of these fruits having been Brogdexed in Washington and Oregon. One thing that interested us particularly was the reference to the "sickly pallor" of the fruit. You will no doubt be interested in knowing that Brogdexing does not in any way change the natural appearance of oranges or other fruit, except to improve it by adding lustre to the surface of the fruit, thus maintaining its freshness of appearance. . . H. F. KEENAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1933 | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

Stevedores sweated and loading cranes whirred in Los Angeles harbor last week as the warm dry hold of the Dorothy Luckenbach was lined with case after case of oranges all apparently blighted by a sickly pallor. When 7,500 cases were stowed aboard the freighter nosed out of the harbor on a fortnight's voyage to Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Paraffined Oranges | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

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