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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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People who hear a ringing, hissing or ticking in their own ears are suffering from a fairly common complaint called tinnitis (caused by inflammation of the middle ear, drugs, head injuries, neuroses). Tinnitis is generally "subjective" (only the victim hears the ticking).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Man Who Ticks | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

His concerto wins a prize (put up, in secret, by Merle) and he goes East and gets his eyes fixed. Successful and happy, he begins to hit the high spots. He can't bear to return to his blind sweetheart. Merle comes East and pretends to be a rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Yes, it has all the oldies--classical "standards," if you wish. The thing's glutted with them. But the plot--ah, the plot--it keeps gooing in. Marsha Hunt maudles the part of the mother who plans a concert pianist's career for her son, Tony. Miraculous point of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/3/1947 | See Source »

An unfaithful wife murders her husband, just home from the war, whereupon her daughter, who has always loved father as immoderately as she has loathed mother, persuades brother to murder mother's lover. When mother hears of this event (from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

It is common knowledge that the Volstead Act, several depressions, and the invention of four-wheel brakes have become part of history since a Harvard-Yale Game settled a major championship or demonstrated the best in football. Almost unendingly one hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Number 64 | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

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