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Word: foreheads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right and left sides of the forehead and chest, and the menubrium, a little notch at the base of the throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Little Black Box | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...surgeons remove part of the brain tissue-sometimes tiny bits, sometimes pieces as big as a cookie. The size depends on the patient's symptoms ; so does the area in which the hole is made (it may be in the temple just above the eyebrow, higher on the forehead, or at the top of the skull, depending on what part of the brain is to be removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Weight Is Lifted | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Lent. On Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a woman and a little girl were stopped by the traffic at a cross street. On the opposite curb stood a young man with an Ash Wednesday mark on his forehead. "Look," said the little girl. "Mustn't point," said the woman. "But mother," asked the little girl, "why has he got that black mark on his forehead?" "Hush," said her mother. "It's something they do in church, I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Cultural Lag. In Spokane, Leo Sol-Louse, an Indian, explained to police the wound on his forehead: a couple of Canadian braves had tried to scalp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...does not look the part. His scholarly forehead, his small, sparkling eyes, his massive and majestic beard set him apart from other 20th Century heroes. The black-rimmed eyeglass, which he carries on a thin ribbon around his neck, is a gentle anachronism. Above all, his dates seem wrong. For it was at the height of the Victorian era, when the atom appeared almost as indestructible as Britain's dominion of the waves, that Karl Heinrich Marx died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Dr. Crankley's Children | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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