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...that the U. S. today stands in great and real danger of invasion by air if the British Navy is destroyed or surrendered. His opinion on Bill No. 1776: "A forthright and clear grant of power which will enable the President to place in operation the best and simplest plan to carry out a national policy many times stated and endorsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Matter of Faith | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...stuffing torn blood vessels with vaseline. But this technique was so troublesome that few surgeons have followed it. Last week famed Physiologist Anton Julius Carlson of the University of Chicago announced that one of his medical students, Sidney Smith, had finally made the two ends meet-by the simplest of inventions. For this he was awarded Chicago's coveted Harry Ginsburg prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Darning Blood Vessels | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...political courage has enabled him to confess his inadequacy to improve the conditions which he attacks. Belching sedative tablets from his guns of oratory, Senator Taft in his last two speeches, the only ones in which he has "dealt" with foreign policy, has betrayed woeful incompetence to frame the simplest of arguments. Even with a brilliant record at Yale, his logic had not yet reached the "pigs is pigs" stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...charge that science has outrun itself and that it has brought more woe and pain and disorder than happiness, comfort, and order is almost exclusively made by vain people whose failure to understand the simplest techniques has produced an inferiority and a defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3,000 Alumni Fill Metropolitan Opera House to Hear Conant Open Associated Harvard Clubs Symposium | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

Long familiar to landlubbers has been the distress signal SOS. Contrary to landlubber tradition, S 0 S is not an abbreviation-either for "Save Our Souls" or "Save Our Ship." It is simply one of the clearest, simplest signals that could be devised from the Morse Code: Dot-dot-dot dash-dash-dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: New Signal | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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