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...were surprised to find that most U. S. pupils wear no school uniforms. Skinnier than their U. S. contemporaries, they found the food much better than in British schools, quickly put on weight. They missed tea, got used to drinking milk instead, were delighted with unaccustomed shower baths and pencil sharpeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New School Tie | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...capsule, a cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic plastics, seeds; dictionaries, language texts, magazines (TIME among them), other written records on microfilm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 5,000-Year Journey | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...certain obstacles as well as advantages which are peculiar to the short-story-illustrator. Howard Turner, I imagine, in order to produce a satisfactory illustration, must rely as much upon his ability to grasp the situation and circumstances of a story as upon his ability to manipulate a pencil. On the other hand, because of the necessary limits which are imposed upon the operations of an artist who is working with an article or an editorial, both Holabird and Bishop must be direct rather than subtle. Only in rare cases can the illustrator be called his own master...

Author: By John Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...indexes by which students of U. S. business measure its temperature are many & various, range from freight carloadings to horoscopes. Last week they got a new one. Flashy, white-haired, doughnut-dunking* Albert Andrew McVittie, 59, ex-showman, Denver restaurateur, president of the National Restaurant Association, had studied the pencil scribblings on restaurant tablecloths, found they were in creasing. McVittie conclusion: business is better. His reason: "When people write on tablecloths, they generally do so in terms of figures. . . . The general opinion is that deals are closed in business offices, but . . . nearly half of them are consummated ... in restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: New Index | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Schwener-no less enthusiastic about box scores than business indexes-sat himself down with pencil and paper, evolved a schedule of his own, submitted it to the heads of the American and National Leagues. He has been drawing up their schedules ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Schedule Man | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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