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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...True-Blend" teeth: the inner body of porcelain is made in one of ten different shades from cream to orange, matched to a patient's original teeth, or to his complexion. Over this core, corresponding to the dentine of "natural teeth, Dr. Myerson slips a transparent grey enamel coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unspottable Teeth | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...people, about a quarter of his payroll, on the way. During the past fortnight Paramount carved off about 50 of its excess employes, while 20th Century-Fox was reported to have fired from 100 to 200 persons. Bullock's-Wilshire shop did not sell an expensive fur coat in ten days and Giro's night club was a morbid expanse of bare white table tops on Thursday, usually the busiest night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood & War | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Last winter from Boise, Idaho, a woman set the long-distance buying record by telephoning and money-ordering for a $200 mink coat. Only one phony has been recorded, but last April Fools' Day the program turned down an offer of a .32-calibre revolver from John Bad, later found it bona fide, the seller's full name being Badinovac. One man has been trying unsuccessfully to get $25 for six pairs of breeding bullfrogs and several hundred pollywogs. Another wants to trade a shotgun for a trailer. Biggest item the program has ever tried to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bargains By Air | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Moreover, the Student Union took the right approach to the problem. The understanding that grows out of debate is the only secure fortification for neutrality. The shallow thinkers will be the first to turn coat when a real wave of emotionalism controlled by a pro-Ally press and a pro-Ally administration floods the country. The slogans and shibboleths will melt away like sand-bags. The Student Union made no mistake when it asked Professor Elliott to present the case for intervention. His arguments must be heard. The answer must be incorporated in any firm and lasting stand for American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEUTRALITY SAFE AND SANE | 5/16/1940 | See Source »

That tradition is emblazoned in the House Coat of Arms, rung out once a month by fifteen tons of Russian bells hung in the vane-topped tower, observed once a week at the ceremonial High Table. That spirit lives in every one of the 292 members who inhabit the maze of rooms. That way of life, shared by all members, is cemented by a constant round of communal activity--the Christmas play, the seasonal dances, the year-round sports competition. After ten years of incessant building, the House is infinitely more than a place to eat, sleep, and study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COOLIDGE SPECIAL | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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