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...faculty attending en masse without any embarrassing questions was a pleasure . . . Damned if they're not human. Some wag put out the hot dope that there was going to be a muster at midnight. Refreshments being available in the room added to the party in more ways that...

Author: By M. J. Bratton, | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 6/25/1943 | See Source »

...bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been in use, research on finding foreign bodies still goes on in the attempt to bridge a surgeon's difficulty in not being able to see what he is after. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Un-haystacking a Needle | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Said a political wag: "There's a law against bigamy but none against trigamy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Term IV | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...Alan Patrick) Herbert, wag, Senior Member of Parliament for Oxford University and Britain's most whimsical reformer, has embarked on a new crusade.* Bedridden with a bad foot late last year, Herbert did not count wallpaper patterns but renamed the stars. He found their old names "queer, unworthy and inept." He has renamed some 300 stars, for a starter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Stars Renamed | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...become a Wag, a dog must be a pure-bred or crossbred weighing at least 50 lb., between one and five years old, at least 20 inches tall at the shoulder, physically and temperamentally sound. Among the dogs already enlisted are Violinist Jascha Heifetz' great Dane, Information Pleaser Franklin P. Adams' collie, Author Hendrik Van Loon's Newfoundland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: K-9s | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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