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...bewildered confusion of people and scenery cluttered up the stage door. Costumes, sets and backdrops filled the narrow passageway that led backstage. But in the midst of all that confusion was Alexander Kirkland, who is to play the leading role in "Men in White," the opening production of the newly-arrived Theatre Group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alexander Kirkland, Star of "Men in White," Recounts Plan of Newly--Arrived Theatre Group | 10/13/1934 | See Source »

...take a chance again. I would go to the Dunster House where I had never seen a cop in the whole Dunster House yard except at the entrance of G where stood a cops room I entered from the Charles River gate and went into entry and through a passageway which brought to entry B the most deserted place in the Yard I opend B and there stood the same cop that had caught me the night before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Mag" Salesman Tells Of "Spieling" Students' Til Trapped By Apted's Men | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

...East investigated. He found that a scar of an old ulcer partly blocked the passageway from his patient's stomach into his intestines. This stricture caused food to remain unduly long in the stomach. The food fermented and formed, along with non-inflammable carbon dioxide, highly inflammable methane (which miners know as fire damp and farmers as marsh gas) and inflammable hydrogen disulfide, the gas which makes rotten eggs smell as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fiery Belch | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Cole, 19, stood balancing three lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bullet | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...shadows into the light of consciousness. A classic case is that described by the late Dr. W. H. H. Rivers, who succeeded in curing a young man stricken with claustrophobia in World War trenches by getting him to recall a childhood terror connected with a long passageway and a dog. Psychiatrists (including psychoanalysts) commonly supplement- recall with their science's standard instruments: suggestion, persuasion, analysis, rationalization. Claustrophobes who have tried to reason with their unreasoning fears, will appreciate the Times letter of one V. G. T.: "May I take this opportunity of saying something that I think may help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Claustrophobia | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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