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Word: faces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen to be present when the reporter took Dr. Goulden's picture. Apparently he was on deck and had the inhalation apparatus strapped on over his face and, as there was no oxygen connected up to the apparatus, he probably unconsciously put the pipe in his mouth. It is one of those thoughtless little incidents that can happen when one is not perfectly conversant with oxygen and the impossibility of having fire of any type in its neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Permanent magnets are magnetized by electrically coercing the molecules into alignment. The "pull" results because the north poles of the molecules all face in one direction, the south poles in the opposite direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetic Record | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Thus last week the Roman Church's policy of picking & choosing among governments brought it face to face with a dilemma. Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who mortally hates Fascism, discussing the implications of the "cultural treaty," blackly warned Catholics: "If, in the eyes of millions of people, Fascism and Catholicism should become identified, it might be very unfortunate for Catholicism in all democratic countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Restore Sanity | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...opposition for a rapidly improving Eric Cutler of the home forces in the 220 and the 440. Cutler is ready for his best performance of the year in his favorite events. Dorsal ace of the Crimson, Art Bosworth, meets Colgate's Low, and in the breaststroke Max Kraus will face the strong challenge of Blackledge and Fergeson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TANKMEN FAVORED TO DUCK CORNELL | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

Clinging to this unseen, vertical barrier, they might have been little animals-silver mosquitoes on a screen, countless miniature human beings, struggling to keep from falling and at the same moment stare at a great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

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