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Word: fundamental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy sitting on his head, chest, arms and legs in the station house. Mr. McGovern, M. P., limped into police court complaining bitterly that some policeman had given way to his feelings and booted him violently on the fundament, causing a painful bruise at the base of his spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Violence to the Lieges | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Shantung Provincial Government. But General Han was a friend of Judge Pan. Not only did he approve the sentence but "as a mark of his personal displeasure" slapped Commissioner Wu once on the face. While Tsinanfu marveled, slanderous Commissioner Wu was then paddled 300 times on the fundament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bottom of Wu | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Fundament of the Museum is the collection called Der Mensch ("Man"). Parts of the body are there displayed in plastic, by photographs, in pickle, in transparency, most parts in all four media. Also there are bones. Many a visitor to the Museum last week involuntarily fingered his head when he beheld the Disassembled Man. Fastened to a tall, black board, like memoranda on a bulletin board, are the 206 disjointed bones of an adult. One could actually see what one has been taught but scarcely believes, that the head is made up of a lower jaw and 21 other bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: German Hygiene Museum | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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