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...asking every lonely Government girl how her complex is today." But Government employes have learned to consult psychiatrists before everything turns black. "A girl who can't find a satisfactory place to live or who can't find a date is now advised before she reaches the poison-taking stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Deal | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...other insects. The machine works as well on potato plants as on cotton. Nisbet builds his blowers himself in his own shop, has already sold six to neighboring cotton farmers at $275 apiece. Said one who has used it: "One operation . . . did more good than three applications of poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blow the Bugs Down | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...type of helmet has also been developed by the Advocate high command. This invention was reported to have been stolen by the 'Poon forces in a desperate counter-attack. The Literary brigade, the Advocate army's elite guard, may attack at any moment with a new and super-deadly poison sprayed at the enemy in an alcoholic medium. See your local liquor store for further details...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gimme That Bottle Mother We Fight The 'Poon Today | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

...Poison on the Pen. Author Aldington inherited that spirit: his bitter anti-war autobiographical novels (Death of a Hero, Roads to Glory) were contributions to it. And though he condemns it in The Duke its lingering traces poison his biography with a wit which seems studied and dutiful, a shamefacedness before an unequivocal salute to a great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Genius of Common Sense | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...again in 1940 . . . declared war upon peaceful neighbors, can, at a moment's notice in her hour of defeat, claim the status of cobelligerent. . . . Ethiopia desires to assist those Italians who sincerely seek to [end] Fascist tyranny. . . . She can never admit to that group . . . the genius of poison gas, Badoglio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Voice of Conscience | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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