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Word: livered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another throne for the inveterate palace builder arrived last week from King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy. This throne, of solid walnut, is tastefully gilded, embellished with columns of liver-colored porphyry and allegorical figures of Justice & Power holding a large gilt crown. King Zog will sit upon the new throne in the new Summer Palace above Durazzo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Zog, Not Scanderbeg | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Report of further experiments to prove his bipolar theory of life came from Cleveland's Dr. George Washington Crile. He considers that every living cell is a tiny electrical cell, that the body is a battery with the brain the positive pole and the liver the negative pole (TIME, Aug. 30. 1926). Last week he reported that he had found that every living cell has a definite electrical potential, or tension; that as that potential decreases the cell becomes enfeebled until it dies. When an electric current with a potential opposite to that of a cell is passed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philosophical Hobgoblins | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Died. Fleet Admiral Viscount Ryokei Inouye, 84, veteran Japanese naval officer, onetime guest student at the U.S. Naval Academy (class of 1881); of liver disease; in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Liver Oil Meal Cake. Quaker Oats Co. wishes it to come in free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Tariff-Makers | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Surgery. Spinal anesthesia by new chemicals. Anesthesia per rectum by ether with olive oil, particularly useful where exophthalmic goitre makes a patient nervous. Human liver found to exercise a profound protective influence against harmful products entering the blood by way of the intestinal canal. Recognition that brain tumors may develop suddenly and rapidly, that the electric cautery knife makes possible more complete removal of brain and spinal cord tumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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