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...acute attacks, rest, liquid diet and drugs to relieve pain are "of the utmost importance." A few days in bed will shorten illness, prevent complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sinus Trouble | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...thousand men of Harvard will shorten their already brief and succinct apasma of cheering this fall in the throes of the Crimson's flashing in triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheerleaders Reduce Rahs; Does Crimson Spirit Droop? | 10/9/1941 | See Source »

...happy in her job unless she's well-dressed." Her first plans last week were to redesign the A.T.S.' ungainly bell skirt, do away with Mrs. Bloomer's famed undergarment. She instructed camp tailoresses: "Take an inch up on the shoulder, raise the shoulder line, shorten sleeves, give more wrapover in front. . . ." Busting tradition as wide open as the male generals who tolerated tanks in place of horses, she made rayon panties standard equipment for the A.T.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Glamor in Arms | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...sooner will victory be achieved, President Conant stated. When American plane production gives the British quantitative as well qualitative air superiority, victory will be near. "Without control of the seas, and helpless in the air, Germanw will face defeat . . . . If we fight now, we may greatly shorten the trials through which we as a nation shall have to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Says U.S. Should Enter War Now; Council Urges Degrees For Senior Draftees | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...established at present for steel: that present production could even be increased if needed; and that anyone who can't get enough steel need only come to Washington. He did note a "small" shortage of coke, a "slight" shortage of pig-iron ingots, and a need to shorten the closed-for-repairs periods normal in steel furnace operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Humor Man | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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