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Word: coiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Valentin ("Wonder Doctor") Zeileis, 65, world-publicized German healer, who treated thousands of ailing men and women by stroking them with an ''electric pencil" (a simple, high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery); of a laboratory injury; in Gallspach, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...accessories; some cars have as many as 300 rubber parts. And these do not include a new rubber spring Goodrich is perfecting, a new rubber shock absorber of Firestone's, or the industry's current prize hope-sponge rubber cushions, which it believes will supplant horsehair, coil springs and other upholstering material not only in cars but in mattresses and furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 100 Good Years | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...match their own immoral strength. Both the Hubbards and their playwright-inquisitor work at a pitch too relentless for real life. But it is the special nature of the theatre to raise emotions to higher power, somewhat simplifying, somewhat exaggerating, but tremendously intensifying. Playwright Hellman makes her plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir up genuine drama of character and will. Like the dramatists of a hardier day, Lillian Hellman knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Schindler gastroscope is over two feet long. The upper half of the tube is steel and connects with the lower half which is rubber lined with a metal coil. At the lower end there is a flexible guide to ease the tube's passage, a small light and a prism which protrude on one side. Inside the tube, one above the other, are set more than 40 lenses. No matter which way the tube is bent within the patient, the lenses diffract the image at the bottom of the tube so that the physician has a clear view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gastroscopy | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Oldsmobile has three series: a new six-cylinder Sixty in the medium price field at $889 and its Seventy six and Eighty eight, lower-priced than last year at $952 and $1,043. Retained is the straight-line streamline; stressed is "rhythmic ride," result of new coil springing at the four frame corners; standard is a handishift like Buick's; optional, the automatic transmission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four-Wheel Debutantes | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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