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Word: conditioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, agreed in principle with his President but cheerfully recalled how Michigan Democrats, in their weakened condition prior to 1928, used to vote in the Republican primaries as a matter of course. "In the Southern States," observed Senator Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morality Lecture | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Like Bellows in Mouquin's, the typical U. S. professional in the fine arts for many years worked in the world but was not of it. He kept his methods to himself; when plain people noticed him at all they suspected him; few people had a chance to discover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In the Business District | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Lying round unanswered in Virginia Woolf's desk as the book opens are three letters requesting the gift of a sum of money. Being an intelligent woman who must make her own living, she can contribute only a guinea (about $5) to each. First guinea goes to rebuild a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passive and Indifferent | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Two fresh shudders went up the spine of Cleveland, Ohio last week. Negroes picking over a lakefront dump found the dissected body of a young white woman, wrapped in butcher's paper. From its condition it had apparently been kept on ice for some time before being buried on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chronic Murder | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Behind the Adam's apple, in man's windpipe, lies the larynx, a triangular box containing the vocal cords. Normally the larynx is open, but when it is contracted, air rushing up from the lungs during speech cannot find room enough to vibrate the vocal cords. Then, instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bone in Throat | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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