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Word: fourth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briefly, the bicuspid-conscious critics of your movie reviewer display much more chivalry than imagination in their outrage. . . . Instead of limiting themselves to nasty remarks about your reviewer, I suggest that they start a fourth-party movement in defense of Miss MacDonald's molars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...fourth generation of this remarkable cancer family was breeding away when it came to the attention of the late (1866-1931) Professor Aldred Scott Warthin, University of Michigan pathologist. From an intelligent young woman of the family, who shortly after died of cancer, Professor Warthin got the family's genealogy and history. From medical records and his own observations he learned enough to state in 1913 that "in certain families [there is] an inherited susceptibility to cancer." By 1925, when he published a second study of the G family, Dr. Warthin was surer than ever of the "recessive familial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: G's Family | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...younger generations of the other lines the affliction seems to be lessening its burden. But Drs. Hauser and Weller grimly warn: "This may be more apparent than real. Not until the full effect of age becomes known in the third and fourth generations can this be known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: G's Family | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...England: the Davis Cup, for the fourth successive year, when, with the score two matches all, dashing Fred Perry beat Australia's Jack Crawford, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; at Wimbledon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...deals. The fact that a firm is syndicate head usually means that it worked up the issue itself as chief bankers to the borrower, got other syndicate members to participate. In creating prestige, originations are more important than participations. But in total underwriting (originations plus participations) Kuhn, Loeb ranked fourth ($344,509,000), Morgan Stanley & Co., fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Busiest Bankers | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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