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...then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Infant Science of Old Age | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...elderly gentleman who guards the gate by Massachusetts Hall condescendingly delivered the opinion that Ickes might have meant well, but that the cars came pouring into the Yard as fast and furiously as ever, and if anything was ever really done about it, Harvard students would rot in their rooms rather than walk as far as the Stag Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Considered Putty In Hands of Strange Fate | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

...Persia when Colonel Reza Khan took over. The treasury was empty, the Army little more than an armed rabble. Brigandage and tribal disaffection were rampant. The country's roads were hardly better than camel tracks, and so dreadful was transportation that fields of surplus wheat and barley might rot in one section while 600 miles away a bread famine would rage. The citizenry was saturated with corruption, ignorance and disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IRAN: Persian Paradox | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...rot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rah-Rah-Brooklyn | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...produce a great song, but last week some of its saddest were heard in the U.S. The League of American Writers produced an album of records ($2.75) called Behind the Barbed Wire-six songs of the French, Spanish, Italian and German antiFascists who now rot in the French concentration camps of Gurs, Vernet d'Ariège, Argel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: We Behind the Barbed Wire | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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