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An alcoholic taking the "conditioned reflex therapy" is first given an injection of emetine, which is, unbeknownst to him, a powerful regurgitant. The conditioning takes place in a small, drab clinic furnished with a kind of throne for the patient and a number of large white enamel pans. On a...
"On regular bombing days," he wrote, "you get a few minutes' warning from a loud-sounding siren, or from the ring of steel, or from men beating pots & pans. Sometimes we sense planes coming before the alarm sounds. Then a shout echoes from dugout to dugout: 'Tojo'...
When the late, sometimes great Thomas Wolfe died he left the manuscripts of The Web and the Rock (TIME, June 26, 1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (TIME, Sept. 23, 1940), and two huge packing cases which contained, along with "pots and pans, old shoes . . . discarded hats...
"The Freshman drinking situation pans out like this," he diagnosed. "When the Dean forms his border line, we form our liquor line. The much they funk, the much they're drunk. That's why I've always been so proud of Harvard's high educational standards."
The Mayor won, but his victory was short-lived. Last month when the "pots and pans" started to move to the smelters many another thing went along with them: old iron, rubber tires, whole refrigerators, baby carriages and bicycles. Some of the items, baby carriages for example, had only two...