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Word: disconnectedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Fred Snite Sr. decided to move his paralyzed son from Peiping to Chicago, he first had to arrange for supplies of electricity to operate the respirator's pump. Last week everything was in order. The respirator containing the young man was rolled into an elevator of the Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life in a Respirator | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

"Prince Alpha," a disconnected and disjointed babble from the pen of a visionary Freshman, Harry Brown, rambles on for four long pages to come at last to the greatly enlightening closing statement, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I'm coming to be a man . . . " Jeffrey Fuller '38 contributes a well-written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey of Flaws in House Plan Main Article of Interest in March Advocate | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

So outspoken he often exasperated Napoleon, Caulaincourt had opposed the war with Russia, refused to flatter his Emperor, so that, although the Corsican tormented his General, Napoleon also had a nervous desire for his praise and a respect for his honesty. This feeling deepened as Napoleon went down, until on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Troublemaker's Troubles | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Not only censorship but bombing of the press is an old Cuban tactic and last week some daring Cubans, who were rumored to be in sympathy with the radical Spanish Government, decided to destroy two Havana newsorgans considered most sympathetic with Spain's Whites. A 12-year-old touring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Lousy Lovers | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Another subject could eat normally, but his respiratory tract had been disconnected from his throat because of laryngeal cancer. This patient's breath was inhaled and exhaled through a tube inserted in the windpipe. Three hours after he ate salad garnished with onion and garlic, the air exhaled through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Garlic Breath | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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