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Word: afters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I was careless and walked too much after my first operation," confessed the grizzled statesman the other day like a penitent schoolboy, 'but the second fixed me up. It was a complete success, complete' The doctors have cured everything. I am quite well again. ... I have been invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Grandmother Brown (Maria Dean Culver) was born in Athens, Ohio, in 1827. John Quincy Adams was President. Grandmother Brown's forbearers were old Massachusetts stock who had moved west after the Revolution. She married one Daniel Brown, set up house with him in Amesville, Ohio, where he ran a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutabile Semper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The oldest U. S. college debating organization is Princeton's American Whig Society. Established in 1769, its early membership was composed of hot-headed Colonials who congregated on the top floor of Nassau Hall, fomenting juvenile sedition. Until the last decade, Whig and its rival, the Cliosophic Society, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whig's Wilson | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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