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Word: necks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along, but has kept silence in order to learn the identity of the man who equipped her with it. Then he spits on his hands. The denouement might be illustrated by a diagram showing the stairs which the villain struck as he tumbled down them and achieved a broken neck at the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: A New Play | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

Married. Elsie Ferguson, 38, actress, to Frederick Worlock, 38, English actor, who played in The Moon Flower as the dangerous, amorous, villainous Grand Duke, at Great Neck, L. I. This is Miss Ferguson's third marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 12, 1924 | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...this province of Kansu, which sticks out between Mongolia and Tibet like a bottle-neck, that we did some of our most interesting and least spectacular work. The Indian traders had used this trade-route for centuries, and we found many of their original holy books, written on long paper scrolls, in the original Sanskrit, or translated by medieval scholars into Chinese or Turki. It was significant because of the light it shed on the influence these traders, straggling periodically over the mountain passes, had on the art of the early Chinese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS BUDDHIST ART IN WILDS OF CHINA | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

...small gland in the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...then discovered that the serum which naturally prevents cancer is produced in a small gland in the neck, and that this gland becomes decreasingly active until, at 50, it often ceases to function. Therefore, stimulate this gland. But the gland cannot be sufficiently stimulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

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