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Word: lifes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family man, Artist Bohrod just after his son's birth painted a store sign, "Bohrod & Son. Est. 1934," into a picture. Curly-headed Son Mark is now saving pennies to buy his father a paint brush for his birthday. A highlight of the current show is Still Life with Ferdinand, the toys Mark chose when Aaron asked him what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Optimistic Realist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...suspicion, as if they shook the foundations of civil authority or usurped its rights." This the Pope denied. But he forthrightly marked off the Church's stand when he said: "So many noble minds separated from us ... are recognizing in the Catholic Church principles of belief and life that have stood the test of two thousand years . . . [the Church] is generous in its material condescension toward all, but firm when, even at the costs of torments of martyrdom, it has to say: 'Non licet! It is not allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Non Licet! | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...second and fifth vertebrae) which lead directly to the heart. With exquisite care Dr. Raney avoided damaging other surrounding tissues, left enough nerves intact so that the patient could feel the "warning signal" of angina. Thus, although free of pain, he can still take proper precautions to prolong his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short-Circuited Heart | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Warren K. Billings (of Mooney & Billings), whose life sentence for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing was commuted fortnight ago by Governor Culbert L. Olson, last week tried to get married to Josephine Rudolph, a WPA timekeeper. Then he discovered that, unless his civil rights are restored by a full pardon, marriage is something he cannot enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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