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...then gave two S-O's the thrill of their Naval careers by doing bumpy jitterbug dances while they served, one at a time, as silent partners. They were speechless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh, It Ain't What You Do, It's the Way What You Do it | 10/16/1942 | See Source »

Chomp. In Los Angeles, hospital patient Letha Mooney, speechless, explained in writing that a woman named Lollipop had bitten her tongue off in a cafe brawl. Asked just how it happened, she wrote: "I don't know. It happened so fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...onetime Aeronautics Bureau Chief. To replace King as CINCLANT he raised small Rear Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 53, at present Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, an exacting, reserved veteran. The promoted admirals were "taut ship" commanders (meaning rigid disciplinarians, as opposed to "happy ship" officers). Air-power exponents were speechless with happiness: for the first time in wartime U.S. naval history, the top man was a flyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Shake-Up | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...Then he went off to St. Paul for a consultation. On Sunday, a crowd of doctors gathered around the woman's bedside, but Dr. Mayo did not show up. Taking his courage in his hands, Dr. Will performed the operation himself. When his father came in, he was "speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Midwest's Mayos | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Europe was cold, ranged over by reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses (see cut, p. 50). Here, arriving probably by migration from North Africa, homo sapiens first appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo neandertalensis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Prehistoric Art Gallery | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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