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Word: annoyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vessels sprouting inside the tube. Because they were scientists, that gave them an idea. They got three rabbits, slit the delicate skin of their ears over a dime-sized area, sandwiched the ears between oval glass windows, long as an egg. Then, because they were scientists, they proceeded to annoy the exposed blood vessels in various ways -to provide scientists with a view of dynamic living tissues in a living body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rabbit Windows | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Organizer Story has formed a committee of Big Names, from Hugh Walpole to A. P. Herbert, has turned her basement into a rallying place for artists, patrons, critics, buyers, the art public. Air raids need not overly annoy visitors, for the British Art Centre has full club facilities, including a bar and easy chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hub's Hub's Hub | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Smug males like he of the horsy name, Andrew McWhiney (TiME, Aug. 14), annoy me tremendously. I don't care particularly about Edda Ciano, but I do resent his oblique inference that all women are congenital nitwits and as such, should be consigned to home and the kiddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Byron refused to answer Lady Falkland but had her informed that she was mistaken and that if she continued to annoy him, he would insult her. Her final disillusioned blast: "Don't write to me. I will not open any letters from you-nor will I see you if you call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Crouched over so that the effect was that of a turtle trying to annoy a mastiff, Galento looped up and over with his left, time after time, during the first round. He even crowded Louis to the ropes, belaboring him picturesquely but not damagingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gallant Galento | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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