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Word: fistfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salt Solution? Last week Detective Bascou thought he had found the solution. Nurse Demussy, he said, was no murderess. But someone had been incredibly, perhaps fatally, careless. As standard treatment after an operation, he discovered, patients are given a salt-drip injection-one teaspoon of salt in a liter of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Puzzle of the 17 Patients | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Six days a week for 25 years, Anne Campbell has been turning out pieces like that, rarely any better and seldom any worse. She has been at it indefatigably since 1922, when the News began to look around the city room for someone to offset the already popular Poetical Guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eddie Guest's Rival | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Stummel Snipers. In Germany, the cigaret had opened new vistas of financiering for both victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Age of the Cigaret | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

But Barea's self-command, worn down by the daily bloody destruction of children and women in Madrid's streets, finally broke. A fistful of quivering brains, stuck to a plate-glass window after a shell burst (he was escorting the visiting Duchess of Atholl at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spain Remembered | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

A shortage of pens for registering voters had threatened to delay the balloting. Authorities beat the illiteracy problem by printing a different colored ticket for each of the 15 competing parties. The voter thus had merely to select his favorite color from the fistful of slips handed him, and seal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Democracy Is Green | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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