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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorothy Steeves is a member of British Columbia's Provincial Legislature. One day last week she went to bat. She never got to first base, for before she uttered a word, she had four strikes against her: she was a woman, a Socialist, a foreigner by birth, an empire-hater by conviction. "Enemies of peace," she cried, "are not all in Germany or Russia. They are right here. They are those who refuse to relinquish vested interests. . . . That word empire is connected with a history of horror and slaughter. I hope to see it disappear from our vocabulary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Shame! Shame! | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, trustees of an estate were refused civic permission to carry out their trust: to erect bronze statues of four Revolutionary War generals in front of Independence Hall. Puzzled, they turned the statues of Generals LaFayette, Montgomery, Pulaski and Steuben over to the Philadelphia Orphans' Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...four she drew bugs and tigers pulling streetcars, later painted unicorns, circuses, zebras playing banjos. Since she was never exposed to lessons in anatomy, drawing or perspective, her people and animals are boneless but nonetheless seem natural. Her father's explanation: "She draws a picture of an animal like you write your name-through long, uninhibited practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dahlov | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week Biochemist Paul Leland Kirk of the University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test. A sore trial for pathologists, the speedy test, invented in 1935 by Dr. George Franklin Laughlen of Toronto, Ont., was fussed over for four years before it could be made practical for general use. Using the new technique and "Laughlen antigen" in 150 syphilis blood samples, Professor Kirk called all the shots, made no false diagnoses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Syphilis Signal | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Five Harvard students, four named Murphy, one Murphey, received $360 each from a scholarship fund established in 1916 by William Stanislaus Murphy, Harvard '85, for the "collegiate education of men of the name of Murphy." The college announced that for them a Murphey was as good as a Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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