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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating under an "unknown generalissimo" with headquarters at Damascus, have set up their own civil and military courts. Arab villagers prefer to take their squabbles to Oozlebart civil courts, which apply Islamic law and charge nothing (Palestine court fees are notoriously high). Oozlebart military courts dispense quick justice, sometimes death, to Arabs caught selling land to Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Oozlebarts and Cantor | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Brazilians that this time the Government believed him dead. The six heads were the grisly gift from the remaining members of the Lamp Post's gang, and belonged to inhabitants of a remote interior settlement who were massacred and decapitated in retaliation for the Lamp Post's death. One head was that of the aged grandfather of an Alagoas police lieutenant who led the attack on the bandit chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Six for One | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...necessary blood to the heart. In half an hour little Robert stirred, whimpered, opened his eyes. Next day he cried, suckled, belched as lustily as ever. Little Robert's accident last week furnished additional proof for the heartening facts that 1) babies are tough, 2) superficial signs of death do not always mean what they say. If all fathers were as quick-witted as Charles Didier and rushed their "smothered" babies to a physician, the rate of infant mortality would be lower. A baby's heart beat is so shallow, so rapid, that often only an expert with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tough Baby | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...slash pine into newsprint; of heart failure; in Savannah, Ga. Mindful of Dr. Herty's revolutionary developments in southern turpentine and pulp industries, grateful Georgians early this year named him "Man of the Year for Georgia and the South," dropped Court House flags to half-mast at his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Vocabulary of Samuel Sewall from 1673 to 1699. ¶ Life After Death. ¶ Laughing and Crying of Pre-School Children. ¶How Christmas Came to the Sunday Schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Doctor on Doctorates | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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