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...Heaven was her only hope; But one of the stagehands forgot to fix the rope: So she didn't get to Heaven Till a quarter past eleven, Little Eva, Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tom Shows | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...great granduncle Franz Josef-in a two-room suite like Franz Josef's at Schönbrunn, with books, a table, chairs, an iron bed, a washstand. He drove to his studies in a second-hand car. When it broke down he gladly crawled under to fix it, but because royalty could never appear in lowly shirtsleeves, had to leave his coat on. When faithful Hungarian legitimists heard about this, 101 of them passed the hat and bought Otto a snappy new Steyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HABSBURG EMPIRE: Clown Prince | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Last week a dark-haired man with crooked mouth and sombre eyes slouched glumly into a Manhattan courtroom. He was Earl Russell Browder, the nominal leader* of U. S. Communists, and he was in a fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Before a Fall | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Sure," answered the druggist, "he's got gonorrhea. I can give you an ointment which will fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quack Quiz | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

More recently he has conducted research in the field of high-frequency oscillation, developing the quartz crystal oscillator used by radio stations to fix transmission frequencies. He has also applied his researches on high frequencies to supersonic sounds of nature, studying the extremely high notes of insects, beyond the range of human hearing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE W. PIERCE, FAMOUS PHYSICIST, RESIGNS POSITION | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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