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Word: mayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

University told a similar tale, one which may possibly prove as significant to medical history as Dr. Mellon's. As violent as the streptococcus is the pus-forming Staphylococcus germ, which causes boils, invades hearts, lungs, joints, kidneys, often fatally. To combat the Staphylococcus sulfanilamide and its offspring sulfapyridine were tried, but with few encouraging results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Staphylococcus Conquered? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Drums Along the Mohawk (Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Brooklyn Phelps Dodge is already producing 100 tons a month. American Metal expects to follow it into production. Both companies deliberately put themselves under a handicap by using low-grade Bolivian ore rather than good Malayan ore, which may be cut off by the tin trust. This increases smelting costs so much that the U. S. State Department, which loves to promote trade with Latin America, has never helped it, believing it would be uneconomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Axel - Freda Lingstrom - Little, Brown ($2.50). The story of three adopted children of a rich bachelor. Laid in England, Norway, Vienna, this Swedish-Englishwoman's novel suggests Louisa May Alcott in its engaging, tame but not vapid characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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