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...contact with any part of the head skeleton are conducted to the ear. That is one reason why people with dental fillings sometimes receive radio programs through their teeth and why some deaf people like to bite on their Sonotone earpieces now & then just to marvel at the racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halfway Up From Bedlam | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...Flight to Arras), a veteran of 13,000 flying hours. The physical strain of stratosphere flying finally proved too much for 44-year-old Saint-Exupéry. He tried gamely to keep on but finally had to give it up. It is a young man's racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Photo Pop | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Dewey and Earl Warren have other similarities. Dewey was a flashy racket-buster who fastened on cases with national interest and made the most of the attendant publicity. Earl Warren's work as district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley) was less spectacular. But in a state where most gang-busting is done on movie lots, he sent droves of bootleggers, con men, grafters and corrupt city officials packing off to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Man of the West | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 24, 1944 | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...duty: For Hagg, none other . . . sources near the new muster-master intimate he will be shovin' off for the mine sweeping racket again . . . Understand, that's purely tentative, old man . . . Another possible change in the regimental setup, they say, would send O'Connor to Fisher's Island on probationary status . . . Sounds fantastic, of course, but it's fannin' the breeze anyway . . . I didn't believe it myself . . . of course, though you can ask some of the guys in the first platoon; they started it . . . And, confidentially, I think that's a lot of bull about O'Connor slapping Hansen...

Author: By Ensign GUY Osborn, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/18/1944 | See Source »

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