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Word: fed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still spry at 74, Labrador Doctor Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell sailed again last week for the desolate spot of rock (population 4,264) which he has nursed, fed, guided for half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Pinky Smith's real coup was executed in 1938, when in an insulting blob of black type he announced that the Chronicle was fed up with the current warehouse strike, demanded that the warehouse operators and the C. I. O. make peace. The union replied with a suggestion that Editor Smith print the facts or mind his own business. Editor Smith countered with the announcement that "the Chronicle makes it its business to stick its nose into any so-called private row which affects the broad public interest." The union snapped back: "That being the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Squirt | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Miracle in The Bronx | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Sonovox, a sound recording of a waterfall, a vociferating animal, rattling dice or whatnot is fed through wires to two little biscuit-shaped gadgets which are placed on each side of the throat against the larynx. These gadgets transmit the sound vibrations to the larynx, so that the sound comes out of the throat as if produced there. The sound is shaped into speech by mouthing the desired words. Thus a grunting pig, relayed through the human voice-box, can be made to observe: "It's a wise pig who knows his own fodder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sonovox | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...current between Billings and Glendive flows at 5 m.p.h. in some places, 2 m.p.h. in others. But Auctioneer Giles had floated only two miles out of the 288 because it was too difficult to keep his body stiff. He was fed sugar cubes, fruit juices and lettuce sandwiches every four hours, had managed to steer clear of hazards until he reached Buffalo Rapids, 50 miles from home, where he was catapulted into the air, bounced off rocks and tree stumps and landed in a terrifying whirlpool. But as he crawled out at Glendive he had crawled into the record books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down the Yellowstone | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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