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...Army Medical Corps. Statistically-minded, he noted that a third of the battlefield dead died of chest wounds, that as few as 3% of chest-wound victims reached a dressing station alive. Reason: even a tiny fragment of bomb or shell, piercing the chest cavity, can easily rip a large blood vessel, bring quick death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breastplate | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...services of three managers (Booking Agent A. D. Ennis, Tennis Expert Vincent Richards, Tennis-Court Proprietor Rip Dolman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charity | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...first time in the history of Sanders Theatre, its stained glass sanctity will be shattered by the Dramatic Club when work starts this morning to rip out all the floor seats to make way for its spring production, "The Ascent of F6," scheduled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ASCENT OF F6" WILL BE GIVEN IN SANDERS | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Mexican Revolutionary Party (which supports Cárdenas) and has promised peasant ownership of the land in place of the present collectivist system. He also has the backing of many business interests, would probably play ball with foreign business. A favorite game of the Almazanistas is to rip down Avila Camacho posters during the night, replace them with Almazan posters, which are in turn ripped down the next night and replaced by Avila Camacho posters. Camachistas and Almazanistas between them have accounted for an estimated 300 pre-election killings to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cool Water on Oil | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Please, mother don't tear. Don't rip. That is something that shouldn't be spoken about. Please get me up, my friends. . . . Please, mother, you pick me up now. Do you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mobs & Machines | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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