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LONDON--Russian tanks and infantry shock troops, fighting their way into the strong, deep main German defense system before Smolenzk, have smashed a series of enemy pill boxes and captured three inhabited places, the Soviets Monday midnight communique said today...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/30/1943 | See Source »

Whatever the advertisement in the Boston Herald may say, the last part of the picture is a good substitute for a sleeping pill, in spite of Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, and Rochester, who seems far removed from Jack Benny's valet of the same name...

Author: By R. A. K., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/1/1942 | See Source »

...publication of seized documents purporting to show that last April Gandhi planned to negotiate for peace with the Japanese was a bitter pill for the British. The reports of his later contradictory statements only confused the issue. The Government's position that Gandhi's call for civil disobedience was a "stab in the back" was widely accepted. Forgotten apparently was the famed Zinovieff letter of 1924, which swung an election through public misunderstanding. The British were hard pressed on many fronts, had suffered too many defeats and disappointments to have sympathy for illogical "blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Saintly Humbug | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...feel, and there are millions like me, that we've got to take the pill without the sugar -let there be more confidence in Washington that the nation will live up to its honored heritage of being able to take it as well as dish it out. If we can't take it, it's time we learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...Very hot? Boiling hot? Take a pill. If the pill is a vitamin C tablet, it will stave off heat prostration and muscle cramps, said Dr. John Henry Foulger of Du Pont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beat the Heat | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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