Word: guaranteee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewd traffickers in this early potent medicine waxed fat. Going further than mere powder-selling they purveyed unicorn horn cups, elaborately carved, which would guarantee living to a ripe old age. Horn walking sticks or wands were still more powerful. The latter, which in today's money were worth well...
Thus began a terrific fire in Ohio's chief prison which Warden Preston E. Thomas was sure had been started by desperate inmates to effect a wholesale delivery. A second fire was kindled mysteriously in the Catholic chapel, a third flashed up in the woolen mills. Into the prison...
Professor Jellinek's apparatus was bulky, awkward, dangerous. It was necessary to send fairly powerful currents through the body to guarantee success. His prediction: that with the basic problem once solved he would soon simplify his device, make it safe.
Country Club, where Gene Sarazen won the national open in 1922. He was one of the few golf officials who did not condemn steel shafts when they were put on the market. He gave them a fair trial, repudiated the idea that they were invested with magic qualities which would...
As a courteous gesture President Gaston Doumergue asked former President and Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, "Savior of the Franc," to form a cabinet. He replied that, although recovered from his prostate trouble (TIME, Dec. 23), he has not the strength to re-enter politics just yet. As a matter of...