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Word: bloods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad-backed Hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Visitor in the Zoo | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Twittery Cinemactress Billie Burke, svelte and pretty at 63, revealed that, among other exercises, she stands on her head every morning. "It gets the blood to the brain," said she. "That's good for any thinking that has to be done ... I suppose it's also good for my feet and the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...mountain hotel atop Petersberg near Bonn, not far from the cave where Siegfried bathed in dragon's blood, the proconsuls of the three Western powers met to turn a historic leaf: they ended West Germany's military government. Henceforth, the land which Allied armies conquered would be under civilian rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: HICOG with a Horn | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

After nine years in the forefront of the battle against disease, sulfathiazole is being retired. Last week, the American Medical Association announced that its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry has withdrawn acceptance of the drug because it causes too many bad reactions: rashes, fever, blood disorders. Despite these drawbacks, sulfathiazole was lavishly used until such newer drugs as sulfadiazine and penicillin came along. Doctors may still prescribe sulfathiazole, but will want to be sure that the patient can take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mission Accomplished | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...finds them: a giant, when Don Quixote attacks, turns into a windmill, and lays the knight flat on his back; the next time the giant, when he slashes at him, turns into a row of wineskins and fills the inn with his blood; a hostile army, when the knight does battle with it, turns into a herd of sheep, and the shepherds stone him almost to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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