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...queasy readers it may provide a sensation something like that of sitting in an operating amphitheatre for the first time. Readers with steadier stomachs will follow with interest such clinical details as the sensations of Dr. Norton's wife when she is having an uncontrollable laughing fit, and when she realizes she can never be cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Wife | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...held the Trojans at bay from then on, scoring one more in the same canto and the rest during a hectic third period on-slaught. Despite a fast-skating squad and a clever passing attack, the Canadian-manned Coast six never really seemed to get going against the steadier, back-checking Hoddermen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET DOWNS WESTERN TROJANS 6-2; FESLERMEN OVERCOME TERRIERS 50-37 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...seek no change in the form of American Government. . . . It is of interest to read Macaulay's letter with care-for I find in it no reference to the improving of the living conditions of the poor, to the encouragement of better homes or greater wages, or steadier work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Macaulay at Roanoke | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...explained Franklin, "and I don't like to have my photograph taken." A member of his family has since revealed that a good part of Franklin's dislike of being photographed at Philadelphia may well have been due to his anxiety lest another, and at the time steadier, girl friend find out that he was having a date with Ethel. However, Franklin and Ethel were already old friends, having met, they now dimly recall, at a Groton dance several years before. And he was subsequently her guest at a dance at swank Ethel Walker School (Simsbury, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...Cagney to talk strike. Asking nothing for themselves, the Guild's 1,100 high-salaried contract players were out to improve the lot of their 4,500 low-paid associates-extras and bit-players getting less than $250 per week. For them it demanded a union shop, steadier work and better working conditions, minimum pay upped from a current low of $3.20, abolition of the Call Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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