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Word: breaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saliva consists of that liquid derived from the three pair of salivary glands proximate and discharging into the mouth. The fluid substance removable after the playing of wind instruments consists mainly of condensed exhaled breath whose source is the lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...some resolutions, had theadvice of long-armed Negro Lawyer Raymond Pace Alexander. They ducked well-wishers, salesmen, and returned $2,133.90 to the County Relief Board. They paid their debts, set aside $57,588 for income tax, redeemed the precious things they had pawned. Then they drew a deep breath and cautiously began to acquire a few of the things which, in their wildest moments, they had dreamed about. Pearl got her new home ($3,000) and furniture. Ben got a Packard; Frances, 10, the whole set of Wizard of Oz books, Ben Jr., 6, new clothes. When they wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Once more Justice Dineen adjourned the case. Safely down to earth again, the Black Eagle drew breath after his latest hairbreadth escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Altitude Record | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman performs the rare stunt of skating on 18-inch stilts; onetime Minnesota Footballer Heinie Brock and his buffoonery; Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson, still cutting up in their own show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...support of the Soviet Union's foreign policy was snowed under by indignant liberals. The liberal majority proceeded to condemn both Russian aggression and the actions of those groups which hope to use Russia's actions as an excuse to rush the United States into war. In the same breath this majority voted for a rider which opposed both a moral embargo on Russia, and special loans to Finland, as unneutral--an apparently paradoxical stand. Yet this stand is not a unique paradox it represents a fundamental dualism in the thinking of American liberals. These people idealistically believe in morality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S UNITED FRONT | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

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