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Word: moles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relaxin's discoverer is gentle, publicity-shy Professor Frederick Lee Hisaw, 52. He found the hormone during long, painstaking studies of the sex life of the pocket gopher, a small prairie animal that lives in burrows like a mole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: If a Gopher Can Do It ... | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...judge, Brooklyn's famed onetime criminal lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, was not quite convinced. When Goldman accurately described a mole on Mrs. Hancock's hip, Judge Leibowitz began to investigate, soon unearthed evidence that Goldman's story might be true. Thereupon the judge called in a psychologist and tested Goldman with a psychogalvanometer which, by recording electrical impulses in a man's skin, is supposed to show whether he answers questions truthfully. The lie detector gave Goldman 100% and Judge Leibowitz gave him his freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Truth Wanted | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...James Thomas, newly returned home, tried to produce some hot water for a bath, stoked & stoked the heater, finally discovered that somebody had tapped the wrong pipe - one of his children came running from the pond in the yard shouting: "Daddy, the fish are cooking." How Now, Old Mole? In London, a married woman was jailed for helping conceal her lover, a French deserter. She had hidden him for 16 months under her floor, in an 11-by-3 ft. hideaway. He was nabbed when he popped out, suspecting that three other men were around the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Deemed a worthy successor to the far-famed "Lowell Mole Patrol" and the much-touted "Take the Wrinkles Out of Pruneface's Face Association," the "Deathless Deer" club has been initiated by the B-School in recognition of the Boston Herald's new comic strip, product of the fiendish imagination of two girls, Alicia Patterson nd Neisa McMein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "We Know All the Antlers," Says "Deathless Deer" Club | 3/25/1943 | See Source »

...even German soldier had lost his appetite for winter combat. Though Hitler had promised his armies that they would be properly clothed, the bitter northeast winds that drove snow and sand across the endless steppes last week blinded eyes, lashed flesh, cut through coats that were lined with mole and rat skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Hitler's Lost Gamble | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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