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...Sometimes they implied a misplaced sadism, like Louis Ribak's Leading Citizens, in which a chunky citizen in shirt sleeves bullwhips a nude man lashed to a tree trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Open Season | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...diseased cord. First to degenerate are the tough fibres in the ball of the thumb. Gradually the other fingers shrivel into a typical "clawhand." Then the arm muscles slowly waste away. After the disease has been intrenched for many years, a patient may lose control of his trunk, face and leg muscles. At the end, he may be little more than skin & bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Iron Horse to Pasture | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...little marine animals called sea squirts (a diagram of a sea squirt egg appears beside him on TIME'S cover), Dr. Conklin upset this notion. He found differentiated tissue regions which later gave rise to the outer skin, the middle skin, the inner skin and the main trunk of the nervous system-carried the origin of organs all the wayback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...more popular victory. Leading his colt to the winner's circle, Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, grinned from ear to ear, told reporters that the silks his jockey wore in the race had belonged to his father, had been discovered in an old trunk during house-cleaning a few weeks before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horseshoe Race | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Some of the hints follow: remove all old addresses and place new ones on tags specially furnished by the company; include a declaration of value with name, college address, home address; put complete address inside each trunk and bag as well as on top; check all knots and locks. Tags and labels will be furnished free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Railway Express Advises Business-like Shipping | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

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