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...coal scuttle near the stove, the lignite coal began to stir. Soon lumps of coal popped spontaneously from the bucket and flew about the room. They hit the walls and Pupil Jack Steiner's head. The bucket capsized. The window shades began to smolder. A dictionary, touched by no human hand, started moving. The book case suddenly burst into flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Witchery in North Dakota | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...boiled up. While Wallace sat silent, Barkley, Rayburn and McCormack vigorously tried to persuade the President to change his mind. A veto, they argued, would simply mean throwing away more than two billion dollars in revenue. Why not let this bill become law without his signature? A veto would stir up fresh bitterness in an already restless and resentful Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barkley Incident | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Emperor. . . ." therefore embodies a hope and a prospect which is all-important to Britons, important to all the world. War has at once tightened and loosened the bonds of Empire. Sovereign, national aims conflict in Canada with a never-dying tie to Britain. Aspirations both regional and national stir New Zealand and Australia. South Africa's great Prime Minister, Field Marshal and Elder Statesman Jan Christiaan Smuts, feels grave responsibility both for Imperial Britain and for the independent integrity of his own country. India, the jewel of Empire, strains away from Empire, yet gives (or sells) men and wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of England | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Robert MacLeod Hodgson, 70; 2) Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare,* 62. Said Sir Robert at his small wooden desk at the Ministry of Information: "They think we are interfering old fogies, but we are not. Our job is to see that stories are not cabled that are likely to stir up discord between the Allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship Takes Anzio | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

answer: "Nothing at all." Last week the indolent president had once again done nothing but stir up a good section of U.S. higher education. The latest innovations and heterodoxies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: All Quiet on the Midway | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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