Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the world this was front page stuff but to Italians it was panic. If Mr. Walters and Mr. Loveday were telling the truth, Dictator Mussolini was being knifed by Dictator Hitler. In Rome shaking fingers reached for the telegraph tape clicking off from Berlin: "FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS HAVE PUBLISHED REPORTS CONCERNING STATEMENTS OF THE GERMAN CONSUL GENERAL AT GENEVA TO A HIGH OFFICIAL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS THESE REPORTS ARE UNTRUE THE POINT OF VIEW OF GERMANY CONCERNING NEUTRALITY AND NONPARTICIPATION IN SANCTIONS HAS BEEN IN NO SENSE MODIFIED." "Resist!" Two days later a solid trainload of German...
...such stuff Let Freedom Ring is made. This time the workers are Carolina mountain folk, well observed by Novelist Grace Lumpkin in her To Make My Bread and well transplanted behind the footlights by Adapter Bein. The mountain folk, frozen out of their hill homes one cold winter, go down to town to work in the cotton mills. There life as "lint heads" is far from the fine things they expected. Tuberculosis gets the men while those women whom pellagra spares are tempted to eke out a living from the wages...
...told. It seemed that the drug, by a selective action on the brain centres, inhibited a person's ability to withhold information from a questioner. In addition it was found that scopolamine, like actual hypnosis, might dredge up forgotten facts from the unconscious. Police hesitated to use the stuff because it was fatal if mishandled and because evidence obtained by means of it was not directly admissible in court. In Birmingham, Ala., however, an alert district attorney cornered a gang of ax murderers by running down leads gained from scopolamine confessions. In Kansas City, an alert detective chief named...
...example, there were three centers who appeared on Soldiers Field on Friday, September 20, each one of whom seemed to have enough stuff to win him a starting assignment. These men were Cliff Wilson, Jim Fearon, and Rick Hedblom. In the Exoter game, it was Cliff Wilson who received the starting call while the other two were relegated to the bench. Fearon, however, refused to be phased by such a little thing as having the captain of the team hold down the position which he himself coveted. He continued to show so much fight and spirit mingled with such...
...Southern Pacific stormed Manhattan in his private car, the New York Academy of Medicine scorned his remedy, made him give up a $1,000,000 gift, and told him to keep quiet until he produced patients who remained cured of cancer for at least five years after taking his stuff (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930 et seq.). Black with fury, Dr. Coffey returned to his native San Francisco to bide his time for five-year cures of cancer. Last week came his first opportunity to talk to a national medical body. To several hundred fellows of the American College of Surgeons...