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...ulcers of ten to 35 years' standing. Their excruciating night pains were relieved, and their ulcers disappeared, "rapidly and often completely." Great practical importance of the treatment is that it is cheap. Anybody can use it at home with an ordinary enema can for a container, a coat rack for a prop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drip Cure for Ulcers | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator." The Post Office last fortnight barred the promoter of this fraud from using the U.S. mail. A rectangular box about four feet long, worked on the principle of a medieval rack, the Pandiculator has T-shaped iron posts at each end, one fixed, the other movable on a cable pulley system. To pandiculate, all a gull had to do was lie down on the box, strap his head to the fixed post, his feet to the adjustable one; when he turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Pandiculation | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...Government as this takes a special act of Congress. The value of these personal belongings, furniture, etc. is about double what I received as Minister for these two years. 3) My dog was in the baggage compartment, and there were two extra seats not used in the bomb rack for people from Africa to America. 4) The Legation in Cairo had arranged for me to travel by Clipper in real luxury, but I canceled it as I could save this $1,500 or so for the Government. As a result I was in a bomb rack for twelve hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...camera has a lot to say in Pulham, and says it without mumbling. It has the picture's opening sequence all to itself: the boiled egg on the breakfast table, sugar and cream enriching the coffee, the morning paper in its rack, the absent-minded good-by kiss, the derby, the rubbers, the two peanuts for the squirrels on his walk to the office, the breathing exercises in the park, the cigar at the old stand, the musty office, the waiting letters on his desk, the clock at exactly 9 a.m. After that sequence, with hardly a spoken word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Playing their second home game, the Varsity lacrosse team opposes Dartmouth in an attempt to rack up their second win of the season on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock...

Author: By Jay KAY Lazrus, | Title: Stickmen Look For Second Win of Year Against Big Green Team This Afternoon | 5/13/1941 | See Source »

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