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Word: doctoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without stepping off the twelve acres of the Center a visitor could go to dentist, doctor, chiropodist, osteopath, could have a massage, exercise in a gymnasium, study languages, book passage to Tahiti, get a passport, could dine, drink and dance. Only comfort and convenience not to be found there was a place to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Monument | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...years at the University of Minnesota young Friedrich was a 16 mm. movie bug, ran the Bell & Howell camera supply agency. Still resolved to be a minister, he transferred to the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. There pious, cinemad James Friedrich set a precedent by writing his doctor's thesis (on the life of St. Paul) in the form of a movie script. He got his degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Struck by a hit-and-run driver as he was bicycling along the Worcester Turnpike near Southboro on his way to Princeton, Richard G. Wheeler '38, 1G died last night in the office of a Shrewsbury doctor where he was taken from the scene of the accident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Student Killed Bicycling Way to Game | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...murder story, although it almost turns into one, As for the Woman is the sinister tale of a vacation love-affair between an Oxford undergraduate and a doctor's wife. "There are few human relationships more complicated than a love affair between a young man and an older woman," says Author Iles, "and there are few more summarily dismissed by the world at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b. Mrs. Pawle, blonde, voluptuous, thirtyish, nymphomaniac, is the wife of Alan's doctor, who is a lanky, cynical sadist. The scene of Alan's seduction ought to sell at least a couple of thousand copies. The preliminary scenes are as satirical as they are authoritative; whether they amuse or disgust depends on the reader. But if the reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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