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Word: francises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even so. when the Ohio rushed down on Cairo, Ill. at the junction of the Mississippi with 57 ft. of water, almost a foot above the record level, Army engineers decided to use force to disband armed farmers who were preventing them from blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell & High Water | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Dr. Francis Everett Townsend's day as economic savior of the nation is past virtually everywhere but in Chelan, Wash. Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Townsend Test | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

In South Portland, Me. last week Veterinarian John Francis Ford told what happened when he transplanted a tomcat's sex glands to a rheumatic 14-year-old shepherd dog. "In two weeks," said Dr. Ford, "the rejuvenation took effect. The dog went wild. He was full of pep. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Rejuvenated & Debarked | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Most valuable hired men in Boston are apparently Mahlon E. Traylor, who was paid $216,505 by Massachusetts Distributors. Inc., sales agency for stock in Massachusetts Investors Trust, and Francis Albert Countway, a retiring bachelor with a fondness for badminton, whose knowledge of the soap business was worth $286,995...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Salaries | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

LANCER AT LARGE - Francis Yeats-Brown-V'iking ($2.75).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passage to India | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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