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Word: doctoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Papa Dionne didn't see why the mountain should have to go to Mohammed. He was for holding up his decision. "You never can tell what may happen," he said. Said Allan Roy Dafoe, the country doctor who brought the girls into the world: "Anything may happen." The girls practiced curtsying for a cameraman. This week Papa Dionne finally said yes to his daughters' first personal appearance outside Callander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Only Chance | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Wilton Reichelderfer (TIME, Dec. 26), contemplating with satisfaction his new scientific aids for weather forecasting-such as latex balloons (see col. 1) which ascend to great heights, send down upper-air data by means of automatic radio-made a promise: in the future, the Bureau's weathermen would doctor their daily forecasts less often with the weasel word "probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fewer Weasels | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Having been retired here last May 27, Dr. Williston was able to serve only one month at the University of Texas before his doctor advised him to return to his Cambridge home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Williston, '82, Retires From University of Texas | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

Laborite Member of Parliament Dr. Edith Summerskill is a belligerent feminist. She is also a top-notch gynecologist and mother of two children. Her husband, likewise a doctor, works in London's famed Harley Street, where doctors' fees are reputed highest in the world. During the House of Commons' question time one day last week, Edith Summerskill, M.P., M.D., stood up and asked: "Will the Prime Minister consider the introduction of legislation to compel wage earners to disclose their wages to their wives?" The other eight women M.P.s sat up in their seats, the 341 men* took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apron Strings v. Purse Strings | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Born in 1895, in Muenster, Westphalia, he was educated at the Universities of Munich, Strassburg, Muenster, and Bonn, receiving a Doctor of Economics degree from Bonn in 1915. From 1915 to 1918 he was on the Western Front as an officer in the German Army. As a member of the Centrist party, he was elected to the Reichstag for the first time in 1924, and in 1929 became head of his party in the Reichstag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY NAMES BRUENING TO NEW POST AT LITTAUER | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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