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...President, prodded by OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes, last week acted swiftly to quell the uprising. To WLB, virtually toothless for 21 months, he handed a shiny, brand-new set of store teeth. Gazing at their new dentures in the mirror, WLB members clicked them contentedly, seemed to think them a perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: What Big Teeth You Have | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...noble-minded Hirobumi Ito (1841-1909), who drafted Japan's toothless constitution; who, almost alone among the Japanese of his time, realized that one might deal with the West "by diplomatic give and take"; and whose civilized hopes were used to throw dust in the eyes of the Western World while others plotted the violent future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sketches of a People | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...forehead. The bells and the drums and cymbals ceased their clamor. Gently moving his hands, the priest led the congregation in a song. Offerings of flowers and sweets on brass plates were made to the deities. Then began a prayer for the life of a scrawny little man, toothless, moneyless, helpless Mohandas Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Fast | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...year. Chairs would be arranged in three "batteries": 1) the operative battery of ten chairs, turning out 20 inlays an hour; 2) the prosthetic (tooth replacement) battery of eight, making ten bridges an hour; 3) the synthetic filling battery of ten, making 24 fillings an hour. Men with toothless jaws would need special care, but nearly all others, according to Dr. Hyser could be handled on this dental assembly line in bucket-brigade fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Dental Cripples | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

Last week the peasants trekked back to what was left of their homes and fields in the recaptured regions east of Rzhev. On their backs they carried children too weak to walk or hold up their heads. A soldier, giving bread to a weeping, toothless, grey-haired woman, asked: "What's wrong, Babushka [Grandmother]?" The fields were tangled with tall, unmown yellow grass; meadows were snarled with burdock and thistle. The few remaining houses were stripped of logs and furniture. German soldiers had taken the wheels off baby buggies and used the prams for easy chairs; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babushka & Ballerinas | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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