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Word: enormouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ernest Bloch's symphony Israel, as played last week by the Cleveland Orchestra in Manhattan, was full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wailing Wall | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Dogs, Glands. Diseased glands are responsible for many blue ribbons in dog shows. The Boston bulldog with his round head, short muzzle, short legs, suffers from abnormal thyroid and pituitary glands. In man this condition produces the dwarf; the skulls of dwarf and bulldog are strikingly similar. The kindly, overgrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Washington | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

The City of Philipopolis, onetime capital of the ancient independent country of Rumelia, was laid utterly in ruins. Some 80,000 families have now no shelter. The enormous tobacco warehouses crumpled like smashed cigar boxes. A heavy rain destroyed the value of their stocks, prime, world-famed Turkish leaf.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: 30 Quakes | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

him is a sometimes startlingly successful effort to tell about the complicated agonies that go on inside of a character called Him and a girl called Me. When the focus on this effort is lessened, people on the stage sing "Frankie and Johnny" with splendid effect; homosexuals make their most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

When Jack Dempsey, sunburned, deliberate and scowling, with an old red sweater thrown over his shoulders and a three days' beard on his chin, climbed through the ropes of a ring and sat down in his corner, people always felt sorry for his opponent. How terrible it would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Champions | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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