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Word: hooke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that disease the facial nerve controlling all the muscles which give character and expression to the features, degenerates. A chill, a mastoid operation or a fracture may cause facial palsy. No matter what the cause, one side of the face falls slack as a wet towel on a hook. Half the features sag in a drooping grimace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grimaces, Grunts, Glaucoma | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...this debate, we expect to have a radio hook-up, provided the Landonites will accept. Of course, they can't bring in any ringers," he added. A rally just before the election is also planned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DENNETT TO HEAD NEW PRO-ROOSEVELT GROUPS | 10/2/1936 | See Source »

...more subtle job is being done by N. W. Aver & Son. Inc. On its own hook this Philadelphia advertising agency is running every week on the cover of Printers' Ink a brief story about the accomplishments of some industry ("Mother Is On A Five-Day Week"), the importance of some business practice ("Joe And The Corporate Surplus"), the value of industrial research ("White Rats And Healthy Babies"). The copy goes in for such facts as that U. S. citizens have added more than two inches to their stature in the past 50 years, that it requires about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The American Way | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Next day official Moscow papers lashed Dr. Goebbels by calling him "a bowlegged dwarf with an enormous, ridiculous hook nose," and described his words as "malodorous filth." Shocked chancelleries all over Europe could not recall when two Great Powers had last traded such gutter talk officially. But if Stalin and Hitler were really sore at each other, the Soviet Ambassador to Germany, Comrade Jacques Suritz, a Jew who is permitted to keep Aryan housemaids in his Embassy only by special permission of the Realmleader, might lose that privilege and even be sent packing back to Moscow. Packing back to Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nazis at Numb erg | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

This programme, like the other principal events of the Celebration, will be broadcast over an international hook-up through the courtesy of the National Broadcasting Company, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation (W1XAL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Class of Harvard's Fourth Century Will Have 1050 Members---Many Returning for Tercentenary | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

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