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Word: breast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not go in for ultimatums. A husky, one-time footballer from the University of Washington, Laborman Fremming steps softly until he is sure of his ground. After C. I. O. announced its drive for a million oil workers last spring, Governor Allred of Texas indulged in considerable breast-beating about how his great oil State was not going to be another "Michigan." Shot back by Laborman Fremming was a shrewd invitation to Governor Allred to help purge the oil workers' union of "any member subversive to American institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Buttered Oil | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...fine and keeping her dogs, or paying $1 and turning them over to Mrs. McLaughlin. At this verdict, Mrs. Whittle collapsed. Mrs. McLaughlin and her lawyer tried to soothe her (see cut), but she would not be comforted until she had clasped each little Scottie to her breast in fond farewell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Starved Scotties | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Fifty thousand Britons and many U. S. visitors on hand for the Coronation bustled out to Windsor to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics, to cheer wildly as King George, Queen Elizabeth and most of the Royal Family wound out of the main gate of the Castle en route to a grassy slope nearby on the river Thames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: High Example | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...Herrell's facts: among the women patients of the Mayo Clinic, breast cancer is rare among those who have been castrated, common among those who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Castration v. Cancer | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Tied up with fact and theory is the dictum of Prof. Maud Slye, Chicago mouse-breeding geneticist: that cancer of the breast runs in families. Also tied up with all this is the probability that, if castration actually prevents mammary cancer, the operation must be performed at least three years before the disease is expected to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Castration v. Cancer | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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