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Last week a new drug, sponsored by Manhattan's Neurological Institute, joined the list: dl-glutamic acid hydrochloride. It is helpful only in petit mal (temporary loss of consciousness) and psychic attacks (unreasonable behavior with amnesia). It is not effective for convulsions. The drug probably acts by acidifying the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Drug for Epilepsy | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Hoover Is Hoover. Apart from a chance meeting in Paris with Colonel McCormick, Ickes' war experience as a Y.M.C.A. field man was not unpleasant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Veteran | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

The R.A.F. began to explore the strategy and potentialities of mass raids in March 1942, with a concentrated, 30-minute, night assault on Lübeck. "It was not a vital wound or anything like it but it was an unpleasant jolt."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Great Experiment | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

President Inönü emerged as the master of Turkey with Saracoglu as his principal deputy. Tough, shrewd, brilliant Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, whose feigned tantrums pull him through many an unpleasant interview, remained as powerful as ever. The country's only recognized political party had seen to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Picking the Winner | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

There was nothing unbelievable about this story to the Japanese, who recognize facts as relative and variable shadows of certain innate truths incomprehensible to all Westerners. When an unpleasant fact does embarrass the Japanese, they either ignore it or else commit harakiri.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Another Flying Train | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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