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Word: jawed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appear before the Supreme Court before 1941. Therefore the job that Frank Murphy was left when he succeeded Mr. Cummings was substantially a cop's job, and he took to it with all the fervor of an Irish moralist, all the energy that his red hair, purposeful jaw and 46 years bespeak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Since then Fred Nolan has kept his heavy undershot jaw set for his two favorite principles: 1) that transportation, like any other commodity, must be cheap to be sold in quantity and at a profit; 2) that transportation must follow population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Low-Fare Nolan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...doctors and patients familiar with it, tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills. It is a nerve affliction which usually strikes one side of the jaw, occasionally both. The slightest stimulus on certain "trigger areas" of the face may set off lightning-like flashes of agony. Living in dreadful anticipation of the next attack, victims sometimes go weeks without shaving or washing their faces. Cause of tic douloureux is not definitely known. Tooth and sinus infections, circulatory disorders, sudden changes of climate have all been suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tic Tactics | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...brain operation performed with the patient in a sitting position, under local anesthetic. Dr. Klemme makes a hole about the size of a quarter in the skull under the temple, lifts up the brain, exposes the root of the fifth cranial nerve, which serves the upper and lower jaws and the eyes. He delicately separates the fibres, severs only the sensory jaw fibres. In this way he has successfully relieved some 200 tic sufferers. In no case has the pain recurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tic Tactics | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...voiced choir and the Georgia State Girls' Military Band burst into Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow. A huge throng of Atlantans, ringing Terminal Station Plaza, cheered and handclapped as a white-haired man, large of frame, square of face, firm of jaw, stepped from the station. Atlanta's Mayor William Berry Hartsfield, a representative of Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, Baptist ministers white and black greeted him-Rev. Dr. George Washington Truett, best-known Baptist in the world. He had arrived in Atlanta last week to preside over the sixth congress of the Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messengers in Atlanta | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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