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Word: morely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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If all the human fingers and toes in the world (somewhat more than 30 billion) were free electrons and were multiplied by a billion and again by a billion, all those electrons would weigh just about one ounce avoirdupois. And yet one of those almost weightless electrons, a negative charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Engraving | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

As fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Odyssey | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

THE CRIMSON CIRCLE-Edgar Wallace -Doubleday, Doran ($2). Only Heaven and his publishers know how many literary offspring have been produced by the prolific pen of Author Edgar Wallace; it is said that he has lost count. Here is another one to confuse his reckoning and to delight Wallace fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

In Iowa four more children were born; one, a girl, died in childhood. The farm made money, but Grandma never liked it; she was glad when they moved in to Fort Madison. The Civil War did not touch the Brown tribe very nearly. None of Grandma Brown's sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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