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Word: lichee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such actual plant traps as these have probably inspired the tall tales told by imaginative travelers about others much bigger and much more dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Bites Animal | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Slumberous and soporific as the drone of a bumble bee is the atmosphere of German feudalism in which dwells with dignity Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg. The Herzog or Duke of Coburg is the Head of the Family of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. This was the name of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Herzogin von Windsor | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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