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Progress. In Washington a patent was awarded for a steak woven of meat "yarn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Diplomatic type he is, too. They spin a yarn about the time he was goin' down to Chequers to visit Winnie Churchill. He'd just been made a full admiral and he was standin' in a railway station wearin' his brand-new uniform. Bein' on the smallish side, the gold braid on his sleeve reached near up to his elbows. A soldier come up to him and says: 'Excuse me, could you tell me what time the train for So-and-so leaves?' Old Splash Guts drew himself up and looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Old Splash Guts | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...Nostiz, an administrative clerk, walked into a room on the third floor of the German Embassy in Washington, said goodby, shot himself. The Embassy gave out that he had died of heat prostration, later admitted a suicide, tried to pass it off in the Hess vein by a yarn of mental illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Canceled Bookings | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

Young Britons' study of the U.S. has always been sketchy: they read the yarn about George Washington and the cherry tree, brief accounts of the "American War of Independence," the Civil War, the Monroe Doctrine, Woodrow Wilson and his League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Revised History | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Mexicans, rayon (in bright colors) is as well loved as tequila and la corrida de toros. But the yarn had to be imported -first from Italy, and, after the war began, from Japan. U.S. yarn costs twice as much as Japanese, but the Japanese yarn is coarse and inferior, and Naselli began looking for some rayon-making machinery of his own. He found it some 3,000 miles away in Easthampton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rayon for Peons | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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