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...magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...tags come, we'll be required to wear two. "One to stay with the body, and one to send to Washington," what, no six copies to S & A, BuPers, and the SERVICE NEWS? and while we're on the subject of the NEWS, they may soon try to soak us for this rag (affectionate term), something around a quarter a month, maybe less. We don't think it's worth it, but then we're prejudiced...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

...inspected the infection with the glasses. He saw at once that it was a carbuncle and shouted his prescription: "Soak continually in Epsom salt compresses. Don't lance. Give 40 grains sulfathiazole by mouth. Take plenty of fluid." Then we steamed back to our place in the escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Binocular Treatment | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...three years the weather had been bountiful: mild winters kind to the wheat, gentle springs for the fruit trees, heavy rains to soak the land in midsummer, long autumns to get the harvest in. Now farmers, with a prayer on their lips, scanned the skies to see what 1943 had in store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Start | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Byrnes, OPA, et al. have licked the problem of price control, rationed all essential goods & services, put across "a fair tax program" (instead of what the union calls "soak-the-poor taxes"), the electrical workers will take their cost-of-living raise in war bonds. If not, they will insist upon "a flat cents-per-hour raise to the base rates of pay . . . to reflect the cost-of-living increase that will have taken place from May 15, 1942 to Aug. 15, 1943 . . . paid in money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Heads I Win ... | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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