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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even doctors, some of whom have been "terrible sufferers," find it hard to speak of gout with a straight face. Some, like their patients, pride themselves on their virile infirmity. Osier quotes approvingly Germany's Willibald Pirkheimer (translated into English in 1617) : "I take no pleasure," he wrote, "in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prime Minister's Gout | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

"He is bringing out into the open forces in the world which would eat up the marrow of our life if we were not forced to see their effects in outward conflict. . . . Whatever men may do at least God is answering the prayer:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Is Doing | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

What Picasso's effect on the future will be, no one yet can say. Doubtless he is content to have provided so many possible breaks with the past. "In the old days," he told a disciple in 1935, "pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Protean Pablo | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Over a glass of beer at the New York World's Fair last summer pretty Florence Mistele, 18, design student, and handsome Richard Graham, 20, actor, hatched a solution to the age-old problem of what to do with one glove after the other is lost. This week their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Ambidextrous Glove | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

When Margaret Farrand Thorp heard that 85,000,000 persons buy admissions every week to 17,000 movie houses in 9,000 U. S. towns & villages, she decided to find out why. She also wanted to know who the 85,000,000 are, what movies do to them and how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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