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...auto solidifies in prestige, pomp and circumstance seep into the drawings (not to mention the ad copy). But there is an image of 1912 evening pleasure, with its silky escort, its four moth-white, moth-soft ladies enwombed in the felicities of a cross-sectioned Waverly Electric, in a rain-dim street, which catches a sort of elegant U.S. ecstasy that few conscious artists have caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Get a Horse | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...most important thing that can come out of the Institute is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, but the general flow of attitudes toward study and research, which can seep down to the very roots of education. Our purpose is to be of the utmost possible service to general American scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Post-Postgraduates | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...much R.A.F. slang will seep into the dictionary is a lexicographer's guess, but some of its catchier terms have already been adopted by groundlings. Among thousands of Americans, "browned off" already means fed up. ("Brassed off" means very fed up and "cheesed off" is utterly disgusted.) To crash is to "prang." To take a "dim view" is to look upon skeptically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: You've Had It | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...just wants the truth. When he gets the news he fans it out to others-by letters, seditious handbills, etc. With the Nazi death penalty enforced for listeners to U.S. news, OWI wants to reach those men who are prepared to run the risks of disseminating the truth (seep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth and Trouble | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...smells like geraniums and is a blistering gas, the blisters appear about 15 minutes after the dark brown liquid has touched the victim. If the blisters are broken immediately, the arsenic will not be so likely to seep through the system, and will not do so much harm." The ordinary gas mask, which may be distributed to all civilians, eliminates the gas with ease, but no ordinary clothing will protect the wearer. Oil cloth or especially treated cloth will keep the gas from the body," Major Johnson said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEMICAL WARFARE OFFICER LECTURES ARP ON ON WAR GASES | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

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