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Afternoons, Rulka and her mother and Aunt Madzia rolled bandages for the hospitals-clean at first, then nicely laundered, then, "yellowish and frayed, some had horrible half-washed streaks on them." The cook and an unpleasant refugee named Mrs. Gruda worked and reveled together over atrocity stories, while with loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Household Under Siege | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Into the gulf stepped Manhattan's League of Composers, which included both U.S. and European musicians. Firmly convinced that modern music, pleasant or unpleasant, should be heard by the public, the league gave whole concerts of world premieres, published a magazine called Modern Music, propagandized among conductors and opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cackles & Groans | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

There will also be countless draftees and enlisted men who will be in no position to pay taxes on incomes they are no longer earning. And there is the unpleasant fact that, after the war, high-paid workers, now drawing overtime, will find their pay checks drastically cut.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Worse Than Prohibition | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Among all the labor bigwigs who attended the C.I.O. convention this month in Boston, no man had more unpleasant news on his mind than Left Wing Communist-inclined Reid Robinson, president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Coming up to Boston for a love feast with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Industrial Democracy | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Although pneumonitis, unlike the similar "true influenza" of 1918, is deadly in only a few isolated cases, Bock added, it is a very unpleasant thing to have, and it can be avoided. Students should live wisely, he said, avoid the sudden changes in temperature, such as the trip from the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PNEUMONITIS THREAT TO STUDENTS, BOCK WARNS | 11/19/1942 | See Source »

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