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Word: duct (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard and Yale are in hearty agreement that intellectual freedom is, or should be, the greatest blessing of a university. To hear these ancient foes singing a harmonious duct of such social significance is comforting today when their football rivalry is waxing warm. But there is more than one fly in the ointment. John and the Bulldog may nod solemnly together over such a book as mill's "On Liberty," but we were afraid they would get into the very devil of a fight over Emily Post's "Etiquette." It seems that as regards a man named Browder, John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIND YOUR MANNERS | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

Such worms may travel from the intestines to the stomach whence they may be vomited, to the nose, to the middle ear, to the larynx where they occasionally cause fatal suffocation, to the common bile duct where they may cause jaundice, to the pancreas, to the vermiform appendix. A child who suffers from digestive disturbances, capricious appetite, abdominal pains, gas, vomiting, restlessness and irritability, itchy nose, grinding of the teeth, foul breath, headache, dizziness, cough, convulsions, anemia, peakedness may be suffering from roundworms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Earthworms, Roundworms | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Meanwhile Mussolini had dashed off toward the great Fascist-built motor via duct more than two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small Balilla (Fascist Scout) squirmed between policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce panting "Please sign my Fascist card!" Out came the Dictator's fountain pen and at this pause the Venetian crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator & Dictator | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

Then Francis X. Shields of New York, turned back Walter Martin of Toronto 6-2, 6-3, 9-7, in a duct between top ranking players of both countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salient in the Day's News | 5/25/1934 | See Source »

DOYLE (9. Conan) A Duct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LARGE VARIETY TO SUIT ALL TASTES | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

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