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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drop of blood is taken from the finger tip of a cancer suspect. The blood is dissolved in a small amount of lukewarm sterile water, mixed with copper chloride and spread on a glass microscope slide to crystallize. Healthy blood forms a green crystal pattern which, under a microscope, looks like a delicate, fan-shaped palm leaf. But in cancerous blood some unknown chemical forms a pattern of scattered, double-wing bow ties. In 1,000 trials on known cancer victims, said Drs. Pfeiffer and Miley, the copper test was 80% accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Progress | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Many evacuated children had never before seen a hen, a pig or an apple tree. But they needed scant introduction, soon learned to shinny up apple trees and drop the fruit into caps held by their sisters. Wherever they went-apple-picking, blackberrying or fishing-most of the children still dutifully carried their gas masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions (cont'd) | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Mountain of Light in Czestochowa, early last week, the arm of the priest who stands to the left of the doorway, dips his little broom in a can of holy water, and dexterously swishes precious spray over the pilgrims, bestowing virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna" with the sabre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

World War I came as a severe shock to U. S. business. World War II, following a full year of alarms and a fortnight of intense crisis, was no shock. There was no selling panic, no steep drop in prices. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 industrial stocks which had dropped almost 7 points to 135.11 in the week ending August 19 oscillated without great excitement. Its low was 133.31 on August 24. Then it began to climb as war became a virtual certainty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: War and Commerce | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...hand at tennis (with some success), at art (with somewhat less), finally decided to try it at a detective story.* Her heroine: Betty Dwight, good-looking, poker-faced, five-times women's singles champion, who faces Mexican Challenger Marie Azarin, at Wimbledon, only to have Senorita Azarin drop dead on the court. Significance: in Mrs. Moody's hand the racket is mightier than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Third Act | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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