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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the exception of the opening scene in the second act, in which Jack Cole and His Dancers turn in an expert and hair-raising number, the present offering at the Shubert dies a lingering and painful death. It seems strange a man of such high standing in the theatre as Mr. Schwab could have become associated with "Nice Goin...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...arsenic compound. Tryparsamide has one tremendous drawback: it sometimes injures, sometimes destroys, the optic nerve, produces flickering vision, a narrow range of sight, even blindness. Yet doctors dare not do without the drug, because in cases of advanced syphilis it is one of the best safeguards against insanity and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B for Syphilis | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Lakewood, Ohio, Mr. Longoria is at home both in the real world of technological utility and the dream world of Wellsian fantasy. He has devised some ingenious welding techniques, feathered his nest comfortably from his welding patents. He is also a persistent and well-publicized ballyhooer of the "death ray" machine he claims to have invented (TIME, Aug. 10, 1936). Says he, this machine can kill cats and dogs, bring down pigeons on the wing, at ranges up to four miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Specific | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...show tried picking its detectives from fans who write in. More like flatfeet than fancy-dans, the unpaid fans not only proved uniformly baffled, but dull. So last Sunday a group of experts from Hollywood appeared. One, Mystery Writer Harry Kurnitz, solved the mystery of the March of Death right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Clew of the Busted Hose | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Commercial tutoring in the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California has been death a death blow by the inauguration of a tutoring system copied from Phillips Brooks House's Undergraduate Faculty, according to reports received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adoption of PBH's Tutoring System Is Successful in West | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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