Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Don't, Bacilli"
"I passed a bad night. I don't feel well, but I try to work. Things don't go well. ... I just slept a little here in my chair, but I am weak and they won't let me eat."
Russian kisses bearing 40,000 germs apiece (TIME, Oct. 21) recall Kieth Preston's pun. Young lad), on being approached with osculation in mind, replies, "Don't, bacilli.''
I know your editorial staff is very busy, but has your attention been called to the July-September 1929 number of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology? Here, in a paper of 77 pages, is set forth the physical measurements of 100 or more young ladies of Smith College. I...
The Hawley-Smoot bill, he thought, was "a very limited revision," although it provided for increases in 42 of Pennsylvania's industries, representing additional protection of almost a half-billion dollars. But said Lobbyist Grundy: "Rates don't mean anything. They're not worth a row of...