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Word: conditioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As Dick Harlow directed the final tuning up operations before the Naval launching, it was evident that the entire squad felt that they were on the eve of their first major victory in three years. There is no overconfidence--the coaching staff has taken care of that--but the underdog...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ELEVEN KEYED UP FOR NAVY BATTLE | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

Each House boasts at least one elevator, but residents who habitually enter late and in an enfeebled condition shouldn't raise their hopes too high, for the "elevator" means only a food lift from the kitchen to the basement and back again.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elevators of All Kinds to Bedevil All Who Would Travel Vertically at Ease | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

The goal posts left standing Saturday also showed a unique change from their Monday morning condition in former years. They were badly whittled away, and decidedly weak on their foundations, but no effort had been made to take them down or to do more than get a "souvenir of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Men Sacrifice a Scant Two Pints to Bacchus During Stadium Game | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

A goitre produces more thyroid hormone than the body requires, observed Dr. Lahey, causes more energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend. Immediate source for this energy is sugar in the blood. The blood gets its supply from sugar stored in the liver. When the liver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons' College | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Dr. Thoma conducted a musical test in the zoo to determine which chimpanzee was the most impressionable. "When the animals' curiosity toward the instruments." he reported, "had abated somewhat-they tried to tear the instruments away from us and play on them themselves-I discovered, to my surprise, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Impressionable Peter | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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