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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A mysterious telephone call to a Chicago undertaker gave police directions which took them to a muddy ditch outside a cemetery in Niles Center. There, wrapped in a blanket, they found a small, naked corpse. There were eight bullet wounds in its legs, one big one in its belly beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two for One | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Good shots in The Battle's battle: white uniforms on the bridge flapping against a grey sky in what seems to be a mingled whine of wind and speeding turbines; the commander getting the enemy's range again & again in his finder, announcing it in a flat singsong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

That amniotic fluid might have another use gradually dawned on surgeons, when they realized that women who underwent caesarean sections seldom developed peritonitis. That was because amniotic fluid is a potent germicide. When an obstetrician opens the belly to lift out the child, the protective waters flood all the neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peritonitis Preventives | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

He gives his patient a sip of barium sulphate in thick cream and a moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stomach Wrinkles | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

In Bedford Hills, N. Y., one blazing summer day, Emil Schoor fished a handsome little pickerel from Cross River Reservoir. When a game warden stretched his tape along its belly four hours later the fish measured n inches, just one inch under the legal limit. Stoutly Emil Schoor contended that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Pickerel | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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