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Word: ates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pride of every Chinese home. He was given the name of Chang Shan-tse ("Good Fellow"). Five years later the mother, yielding to her small son's plea for playmates, secured for him three vigorous tiger cubs with which the infant not only played, but slept and ate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tiger Painter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...seems likely that, before becoming extinct, Neanderthal Man interbred with the more highly evolved men who supplanted and sometimes ate him. Dr. Hrdlicka thinks that many living people have Neanderthal blood in their veins (or more precisely, Neanderthal genes in their germ plasm), points to suspiciously Neanderthaloid features which crop out in 20th Century humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Precious Child | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...father, who was also a co-founder of Standard Oil Co.), looked like Andrew Mellon and had a finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia's Union League Club, contributed regularly to the Republican Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Builder | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...common cause of deafness is deterioration of the eighth nerve, which leads to the ear. Five years ago, Dr. Selfridge noticed that most of his deaf patients ate very little food containing vitamin B, essential for healthy nerves. So he tried out vitamin B in tablets, rice bran and injections on over 100 cases of nerve deafness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B for Ears | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

After as few as six injections, many young patients could hear more clearly and distinctly, provided they also ate plenty of whole cereals and green vegetables, rich in vitamin B. Older patients needed a longer course of injections, seldom regained their hearing completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B for Ears | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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