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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After listening to conversation between Colonel Lindbergh & President Roosevelt at the White House, Rhode Island's Senator Green told friends that he would "advise any one against planning a trip to Europe this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reason & Emotion | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...many years Dr. Osterhout taught botany at Harvard. In 1925 he went to the Institute to devote all his time to a study of fundamental life-processes. His special studies have been fertilization in plants, formation of chromosomes, photosynthesis (conversion of carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates by green plants), and osmosis (passage of liquids through membranes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rockefeller Retirements | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Calculated on distance, allowing two putts a green, a hole that measures up to 250 yards is par 3; 251 to 445 yards, par 4; 446 to 600 yards, par 5; 601 and over, par 6. Women have their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eight Below | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...limp (only one leg bends at the knee and both huge feet are equipped with rollers). He can salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing (by voice recordings played through an amplifier). He can suck smoke from a cigaret placed in his mouth, and exhale through his nostrils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Talents | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...last week a big, bullet-shaped touring car nosed out of the Derham Custom Body Co.'s plant at Rosemont, Pa., and headed for Manhattan and glory. Army drab -colored, dark -green -leather -upholstered, fitted with a special top that folds down flat so that guests' may sit thereon in comfort to be admired, the sleek, custom-built Chrysler Imperial was destined to be the personal car of the president of the New York World's Fair, the greatest greeter of his time, Grover Aloysius Whalen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Expensive Bodies | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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