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Word: hospitaler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years ago, when koalas had almost vanished from the Australian bush, a penniless 22-year-old Brisbane naturalist named Noel Burnet dedicated his life to saving the species from extinction. He started out with four koalas in his boardinghouse back yard, soon interested a philanthropist who rented him a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Vanishing Koala | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

According to statistics, 87 sets of quadruplets and one set of quintuplets must be born somewhere in the world each year. In accordance with this multiple-birth rule, in addition to the Bridges quadruplets last week quintuplets were born (dead) to an unnamed North Carolina woman confined in Duke Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prodigious Births | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Annapolis, Md., Nov. 12--Navy entertains no false ideas about the Harvard team which it will play Saturday in Cambridge. The Crimson's slaughter of Virginia last week gave coaches, players, and rooters all an idea of the opposition which they will meet in their final game before the all...

Author: By Sports Editor, Midshipman M. H. jordan, and "the Log, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: Navy Expects Hardest Kind of Battle to Subdue Rejuvenated Crimson Opposition in Game Today | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

Grant flies after her, but, despite the violent efforts of a friendly gangster, finds Bennett adamant. Disheartened and drunk he ponders what to give her as a wedding present until he remembers her love of fire-engines and thrills. Forthwith he summons to the place of marriage the firemen, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

Anthropologists have long suspected that in Japan twins are born less frequently than among whites. Confirmation has been difficult because Japanese mothers believe that to bear more than one child at a time is a bestial act, frequently try to hide multiple births by separate registry of offspring, even by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Japanese Twins | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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