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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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It would take a hen, however earnest and diligent, 240,000 years to lay as many eggs as a female oyster will toss into the water on a single midsummer day. No less splendidly fecund is the male who will presently fertilize this brood. A few weeks elapse, and upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bluepoints, Inc. | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

This is significant of the so-called Mexican Renaissance, which has occurred with-in the past few decades. Several of Mexico's greatest living artists first went to Paris where they thought they were cubists, surrealists, neo-impressionists. But when they got tired of Art for Art's sake they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Intrinsically Native | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Steinach has "certainly not" tried centronervin on humans. "It is a tremendous field and only sheer ignorance could imagine that such a problem could be solved by a few experiments on tree frogs."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain Juice | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Two winters ago there arrived in the U. S. a Russian scientist, one Leon Sergeievitch Theremin (pronounced Termin), with an invention whereby he claimed music could be made with a wave of the hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pacific Opera | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

¶ Few Princeton men do not know John Gale Hun, who conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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