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Word: nakedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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These malefactors were small potatoes in the international game of espionage. Had they been large potatoes their capture would likely have been kept secret. Certainly Nina, though similarly beauteous and professionally equipped, was no Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning). That curvesome celebrity of World War I did business in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: No Hari | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Women have another advantage, according to Dr. Hardy, which enables them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Woman and Heat | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Two or three drops of blood are taken from a finger or an ear lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Syphilis Signal | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Yeshua as seen by the Roman: "His body was lean and hungry-looking . . .strange pallor. . . . A young black beard, which mingled with the ritualistic ear-locks hanging down at either side." Less than two years later, when Yeshua stands before the Roman's superior, Pilate, the soldier notes: "On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nazarene | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

> Three men last week boarded the American Clipper-Ernest J. Swift, Wayne C. Taylor, James T. Nicholson-delegates of the American Red Cross going to Geneva to consult with the League of Red Cross Societies, to learn the plight of the hungry and naked children.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Hungry and Naked | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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