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...cast promises to refrain from basso profound "Do you feel"s, "BO"s, and other such sickening health sales talks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busy School to Air 'Hucksters' Holiday' | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

...thereafter by any one of the 216,000 members of Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians for any one of the 771 U.S. recording and transcription companies. Tired but outwardly happy, the musicians sat back to wait for Jimmy's next move. Nobody believed Jimmy's refrain, but everybody knew that some time would elapse before he stopped chanting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: What, Never? No, Never! | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...drinking refrain "nobody knows how dry I am" shows real insight into what makes an alcoholic drink, according to Dr. Roger J. Williams of the University of Texas. The alcoholic's craving for alcohol has a physiological or biochemical basis that is not generally understood; his reaction to a given quantity of alcohol is violently different from that of the normal individual: "As long as we deal with the average man we will fail to encounter an alcoholic addict because the average man doesn't become addicted." This physiological basis seems to be inherited: investigators report that alcoholism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Age of Anxiety | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...prospective hosteler must not, however, go astray with a belief that the gravy flows without a helping hand. Students staying at the shelters must do their own cooking, bring their own sleeping bags and eating utensils, be in bed by 10 o'clock every night, and refrain from smoking and drinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardy Ski Enthusiasts Can Curtail Vacation Expenses | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...placed upon him. To be "mited" means that a former good member of the Amish Church has gone astray from the Amish interpretation of the Bible, and although he may continue to sleep in Amish homes, he is shunned. Members are advised not to eat with the offender, to refrain from any business dealings or associations with him, and in general to disregard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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