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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Joachim of Babylon, Bellman compressed an apochryphal Biblical story into a few lines:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Troubadour | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Milkman's Matinee was four years old and far & away the most successful of U. S. late-trick radio programs. Since most radio men believe that the hours after 11 p. m. are poor sales time, few U. S. stations run a 24-hour schedule. Of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

When the rig was ready, two of the outlet tubes he inserted into the babies' nostrils. After they began to gasp again, he pulled out the nostril tubes, attached a rubber mask made from an old stomach pump in his instrument kit to the fourth tube, held it for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fruit-Jar Rescue | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

In the Antarctic last year were all but a few of the world's 40 floating factories and scores of killer ships (small motor vessels from which the whales are harpooned, then towed to a floating factory). Their catch: 46,039 whales; 3,340,330 barrels of oil (over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Tax | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Under such headings as "Don'ts" Every Girl Should Know, How to Attract a Husband, Lures Men Can't Resist, she chatters of the business of mating in the lower brackets with the kindly solicitude of a slightly prurient older sister and a hard-boiled realism that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did I Do Wrong? | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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