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When you buy polish, your car to rub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Plain Talk at Last | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...historic meeting with Gandhi on Malabar Hill in 1944 ended in an impasse. Even Gandhi's healer, Dinshaw Mehta, who massaged Jinnah for two hours daily during the meetings, could not rub out the wrinkles of obstinacy that made the skinny Moslem uncompromisingly demand Pakistan, made the skinny Hindu as uncompromisingly demand a unified India, with the Pakistan issue postponed until after independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...politics is several degrees to starboard of Ingersoll's), guessed that he had not followed Ingersoll's party line enthusiastically enough. Said he last week: "I'm going to take PM's prospectus, particularly that part about not 'pushing other people around,' and rub it under Ingersoll's nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Pushing? | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Rub the film of obedient blindness from your eyes, oh Veritas; we are back and would share greater vistas with you. Hidden under cloth of monotonous hue, your once-broad searching has hurried along the dictated path, looking neither to right nor left. The stern discipline imposed on your inquiring soul must have made insensitive dreams of clouds lolling in luxurious sunlight, resilient grasses, paternal elms and walls of mellow brick. You needed peace, and us, and we needed you, while we were stumbling upon the rocky path...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morning Fix | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...either win or beat myself." Usually no self-bettor, Budge had his dander up this time, made a $1,000 side bet with Riggs. Said he: "I'm betting with Riggs because he's always talking about betting and I'd just like to rub his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man with No Weakness | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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