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Word: coms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole of the virus in its tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside the body cells, where the antibody for some reason cannot penetrate. The chicken is thus in the unfortunate position of a military com-mander who has enough troops to wipe out an enemy if he could get them out of jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rabbit Skin, Chicken Cells | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...bigwigs that the best way to keep 17,000,000 Republican voters together in lean times is to supply them with a creed, proposed to the National Committee in Chicago that they call a party conference to formulate a positive program. Fearful of the splits this might disclose, the com mittee voted instead to have its creed drafted by the loo most representative Republicans in the U. S. All that remained was for the Republican executive committee to find 100 such suitable philosophers. So last week in St. Louis the committee, including New York's Old Guard Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: 100 Philosophers | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...white organization. President and chief producer is Jed Buell, who has made a specialty of shoe-string productions, spent considerably less than $50,000 on this picture. If Harlem on the Prairie clicks, he plans to turn out four such Westerns a year. Secretary-treasurer of the com-pany is famed, rich Yale Pole-Vaulter Sabin W. Carr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...were reticent about Mr. Kolbe's departure. All they would say was that part of Mr. Kolbe's share in the syndicate had been bought by Mrs. Young, who is the sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, the remainder by a lawyer "for the personal holding com-pany of an undisclosed individual." While Wall Street ears tingled to talk that this unknown was either Amadeo Peter Giannini or John Jacob Astor III, in Cleveland the Alleghany Board met to discuss yet more simplification plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Babe Out | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Reader McNulty makes his point. Henceforth there will be no more unpronounceable TIME words, but TIME will be the judge, radiorator will stay but SECommission will be SEC Com-mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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