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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only thoroughly unperturbed person last week was Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, third to have charge of New York's relief machine in a year, whose character was recently gauged by newshawks who asked him where he came from. "From Arkansas," growled the Colonel, "where men are men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Dead Men, Dead Cats | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Firmly established is the Slye doctrine that susceptibility to cancer is inherited as a recessive Mendelian character, transmitted by a single gene. Resistance to the disease is a dominant character, and represses, but does not obliterate, the susceptibility factor whenever they occur together. A resistant individual mated to a susceptible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: If Men Were Mice | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Out. Two years after Tunney's retirement, Sharkey and Schmeling, final survivors of a prolonged elimination tournament, fought for the title. Schmeling won on a foul. In 1932 Schmeling lost the title to Sharkey on points. In 1933 Sharkey lost it to Camera. In 1934 Camera lost it to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heavyweight Happenings | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Dr. McGuffey was my maternal grandfather, and I am writing to ask if you will correct an error in your description of his personal appearance? Your account refers to him as "the sobersided, carrot-topped young teacher." As a matter of fact, Dr. McGuffey had heavy black hair, and was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Pseudo-hermaphrodites are much more frequent than true ones. In them the glands are of a sex opposite from the person's general character and configuration. The genitalia may be a confusion of imperfect male & female parts. These defects may sometimes be remedied by surgeons to bring the pseudohermaphrodite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Change of Sex | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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