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...present time England and Germany are deadlocked. Up to now we have been willing to pour planes and material into the breach in order to help the British in their fight to stave off invasion. But that phase of the war is at an end. Already there is talk of counter-attack by England. Yet it is plain that England can never dislodge the German octopus from the continent of Europe without American aid--millions of American men to fight on the beaches of Brittany and the Channel coast, as well as American ships and planes. And it is equally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECLARATION OF PEACE | 11/22/1940 | See Source »

...this condition are two glands: 1) the little islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, which secrete insulin, a hormone essential for carbohydrate digestion; 2) the anterior pituitary. Latest medical theory is that somehow the pituitary hormone, working overtime, stimulates the islands of Langerhans to febrile activity. First they pour forth enormous quantities of insulin; later their cells become exhausted, die from overwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diabetes Prevention | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...anyone does not know how these ingredients taste, let him whip a quart of the thickest cream, mix the best green salad he knows how, pour a tumblerful of creme de menthe. cook up a bowlful of spicy Hungarian goulash-then mix them all rapidly in a tureen and spend two hours trying to consume them all at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...Willkie train rocked eastward into the last two weeks before election. Newsmen waited to hear the exchange when the golden Roosevelt voice began to pour across the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nobly Save or Meanly Lose | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Also on the program is a soothing little job called "Maryland." It's all very horsy, very colorful, and there's Brenda Joyce in a sweater and Fay Bainter being a witch about the whole thing. A pleasant oil to pour over the ruffled waters whipped up by the first feature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON MOVIEGOER | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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