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Then he talked, smoothly, soothingly. The newsmen's hackles sank. He explained away one irritation after another. But with it in his power to spill the news that the country was eager for, he told nothing. Names of ships and dates were out, he said. He would not even say how long or how often he had conferred with Churchill. All he could and would say was that he had been aboard the cruiser Augusta and Churchill aboard H.M.S. Prince of Wales. The only scene on which he was willing to dwell was the Sunday morning church service held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home from the Sea | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...SPILL THE JACKPOT - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: March Murders | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Ames took an unfortunate spill in the downhill at Hanover which cost him one of the top places, but with luck he should figure well against MacLane of Dartmouth and Townsend and Clark of New Hampshire. Ferner is fully recovered from his two broken ribs and ought to be among the first finishers in his three events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS TO GO TO VERMONT | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

Mortal fear of the U. S. armed services, particularly the Navy, is uncontrolled publicity. They also fear that given a free rein, reporters, radio commentators and photographers are likely now & then to spill secrets that the Axis powers would dearly like to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Secret Spilled | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...Raab recovered from his experiment. The symptoms he had experienced gave him added evidence for a new theory of angina pectoris: that the bad actors in angina are the adrenal glands. The adrenals, which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of stress. When certain sensitive individuals overwork, or get an emotional shock, their adrenals speed up to feverish pitch. The excess adrenalin tightens the arteries leading from lungs to heart, deprives the heart of oxygen just when it is most needed. Such temporary smothering. Dr. Raab believes, produces the stabbing spasms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray for Heart Attack | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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