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...woman of type 442 is one of nature's practical jokes. In youth she is generally an active, slender pep girl with the endomorphic 4 concealed. After maturity that component blossoms out and she gets chubby. Sometimes a girl of this type, in her streamlined adolescence, chooses a career as a dancer. It might save years of wasted effort if she could be dissuaded by constitutional diagnosis and prediction of her future dimensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Judging Mind By Body | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...passed the first shocked realization that perhaps soon nothing but a shrunken ocean would lie between Adolf Hitler and America. Last fortnight the nation had agreed on the imperative necessity of arming. Last week, as little seemed to come out of Washington but newsreel pep talks, the cry changed to Action-no time now for diddling around, for chitchat, for political guff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mobilization for Defense | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Laborites had also watched Mr. Burgin as the uninspired successor of dramatic Leslie Hore-Belisha in the Ministry of Transport and had suspected that he did not have enough pep to keep things humming in the newly created Ministry of Supply. Largely because of these suspicions they demanded-and got-a secret session of Parliament in December. Then late in January Laborite M. P. Ernest . Thurtle rose publicly in the House and used some very interesting language. He had found the Supply Ministry peppered with favoritism, if not graft. Scotland Yard got busy, the War Office began investigating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Leslie Trouble | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...vocal chorus and then get the old Isham Jones version of the same, done for Decca when most of the Herman Herd were with Jones . . . One of Louis Armstrong's best numbers in a great while is "Poor Old Joe." Main reason is that it has the life and pep that the old Louis discs used to have and that none of them have had lately . . . Bing Crosby's "If I Knew Then," a swell commercial...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

...wide from their subjects. The French Premier, for instance, got very bitter about the "madmen who rule at Berlin." The German Chancellor was also given to personal insults and mockery. The British Prime Minister meandered among the non-belligerents. All in all, last week's speeches were mainly pep talks for the home folks. Certainly this round in the European war of words did not change many opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pep Talks | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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