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Word: breaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officer started, after the Armistice, to learn what happens to food in the human body. He was particularly interested in the progress of carbohydrates (starches and sugars). These enter the mouth, change into a variety of transient substances, nourish every cell in the body, leave the body with the breath as simple carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) gas and water (H 2 O) vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Paprika Prize | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...sentence has yet been passed on any penal case. . . . No better conditions exist for workers than those prevailing in the service of the Pope. . . . They have enough to spend on simple amusements. They are secure and happy in the highest sense of social reform. . . . There can never be a breath of scandal. Family and social probity are an obligatory minimum. . . . The Pope is air-minded, permits the cardinals to fly, and has even projected a fleet of helicopters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Interesting Particulars | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...play. It began with a 33-yd. forward pass, followed by a forward from Quarterback Sims to End Jordan who lateraled to Guard Wilcox for a first down on the 18-yd. line. Before the afternoon was out Georgia Tech had completed eleven passes, many of them breath-taking forward-laterals and lateral-forwards, for gains averaging over 15 yards apiece. The score seesawed, between brilliant running and dazzling passing: Duke leading 7-to-6, Georgia Tech 13-to-7, Duke 14-10-13, Georgia Tech 19-to-14. In the last five minutes of the game Georgia Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Frenzy in Atlanta | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Taking a deep breath this able scientist added a final cracker: "It is also within the realm of possibility, although it might not be wise, that we could produce ovulation that would result in more than one child if the patient wanted twins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mare Serum Hormone | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Suddenly, over the rill which the two had just passed, came the sound of galloping hoofs, and with it a courier, out of breath and panting on his well-accoutred charger. He had ridden miles, haste-post-haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/15/1937 | See Source »

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