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...snip out the ulcer and patch up the stomach or intestine. For the incorrigible stomach keeps on brewing its corrosive acid. Most authorities hold that the best procedure is to cut out "three-fourths to four-fifths of the stomach." Since the stomach is primarily a churn and a reservoir for big meals, it is possible to get along without it. Of course, said Dr. Abell, mortality rates for removal of most or all of the stomach are about 10%, but even so, the operation is worth trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking of Ulcers | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...During World War I he toured U. S. cities on a tank, selling Liberty bonds, while Singer Harry Richman, then a sailor, bawled The Rose of No Man's Land. In Manhattan Lytell may often be seen, inside three sweat shirts, circling the Central Park reservoir. Oldtime matinee idolizers often say that Bert Lytell's profile hasn't changed in 20 years. It hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Student Union expects to allow the movement to grow of its own scored, and its only part will be to serve as a reservoir of the blue and white buttons bearing the legend "No Wilson Promises," the slogan of the movement's supporters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. Starts Button Campaign To Prevent More War Hysteria | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

Causing hardly a ripple on the surface of a beautiful fall day, Harvard's first peace-time registration passed into history yesterday with 4700 students and faculty members taking their place alongside of 16,500,000 Americans in the nation's military reservoir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGISTRATION OF 4700 MEMBERS OF UNIVERSITY RUNS OFF SMOOTHLY | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...between 21 and 36 who must register October 16, there will be a reservoir of about 5,000,000 without dependents and without "essential" occupations from which to draw for active military service, officials said in explaining the lenient deferment policy...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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