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WASHINGTON--The United States, imperiled by the greatest war of all time, added, 9,000,000 more men to its reservoir of potential fighting power today by completing the registration of all men between 20 and 44 inclusive. sive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 2/17/1942 | See Source »

This reckless character broke down as he faced the court-martial. He sniveled: "S'elp me, Hi honly done it to sive a few bob t'buy warm clothes for me wife an' child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tower Court-Martial | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...SYPHILIS SIVE MORBUS HUMANUS- Charles S. Butler, M. D., Rear Admiral (M.C.) S. Navy-Science Press (Lancaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: After Syphilis, Cancer | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...circulation: 450,000). True to the Independent Democracy of his late father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, self-effacing young Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger swung his venerable journal to the Democracy one day last month (TIME, Oct. 12), promptly reasserted its independence by sharply criticizing Franklin Roosevelt on two succes sive days, continuing to ask him such embarrassing questions as what he intends to do about reviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Press | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...special recognition. In 1493 a great plague of syphilis spread out of Naples, apparently carried there by Spanish troopers. Up to that time the disease had no specific name, was thereafter referred to as the Great Pox. In 1530 Girolamo Fracastoro, an Italian, produced a Latin poem entitled Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. Its hero, a shepherd named Syphilus was smitten with the Great Pox. Thus did this ancient disease finally get a literary name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Pox | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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