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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the revamped picture opened last week in San Francisco, result of such tinkering was almost as complete a disaster for All Quiet on the Western Front as even Nazis could have wished. Hard to spot were any restored cuts. The historical newsreel was a separate show. The strident commentator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revival: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, in his speech at Danzig last week (see p. 20), uttered a dark hint that Germany possesses a secret and unique weapon. This threat stirred Professor Archibald M. Low, A.C.G.I., M.I.A.E., F.C.S., F.I.P.I., F.R.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., D.Sc., Ph.D., F. Inst. Arb. to retaliate. Professor Low is a British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Low on Horror | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Many a psychologist conducts his researches on animal intelligence by noting how rats run through a maze. If you were a psychologist, and got hold of a race of rats showing high susceptibility to constipation, fallen arches, varicose veins, stomach ulcers, hernia, sagging viscera, poor circulation, crooked and decaying teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Raucous Crying | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

> Essential for the prevention of rickets in children, Vitamin D regulates the amount of calcium and phosphorus which the body uses for building bones and teeth. Only vitamin which does not originate in plant tissue, vitamin D occurs most abundantly in oily fish livers, is generated in the body by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

"As I write this dispatch 21 bombers are raining heavy bombs on the oil and alcohol refineries. The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. In this infernal din set up by screaming sirens, barking anti-aircraft guns and the roar of bursting bombs I can't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fair-Haired Boys | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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