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...sudden, mighty 70-mile-an-hour March wind roared across the prairies of the Northwest one night last week. It swept cars from the highway, sent drivers, blinded by snow and dust, blundering into ditches. In Fargo, N. Dak. the temperature dropped 14° in 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHES: Act of God | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...four hours a day. Late classes and missed trains threatening more than free render rides, it seems that scholars still prefer the leap to the look. The boys have been playing this game for over three hundred years and are nearing the end of the overtime; next period is sudden death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Century Jam Session | 3/20/1941 | See Source »

...quilts. Last week Sutter Street's Raymond & Raymond Gallery was exhibiting some of Papa Hiler's paintings. The critics were pleasantly taken aback. Said the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "He sets up quite regular rhythmic patterns and then answers them in a kind of sudden, surprising syncopation. It is the nearest visual approach to hot jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Papa Hiler | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Newshawks (whom he hated) and col leagues last week recalled some episodes of Sir Frederick's turbulent career. He was a stubborn man of strong feelings, sudden temper, trenchant speech. After insulin was discovered in 1921, Biochemist James Bertram Collip was called in to polish up the glandular extraction technique. The stuff began to be called "Collip's extract." Banting leaped on Collip in the university halls, threw him down, banged his head on the floor, bellowed: "So, you will call this 'Collip's extract,' will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spark-Plug Man | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

SOFIA-The German war machine rolled through Sofia's blacked-out streets tonight amid a nationwide mobilization against any sudden British air attack after a parting warning by British Minister George Rendel that Bulgaria "may suffer" for her capitulation to Adolph Hitler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 3/6/1941 | See Source »

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