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Word: nervously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson City, Tenn., a student at East Tennessee State Teachers College became suspicious last week when a strange, nervous boy turned up and said he was going to enroll. Police looked him over, found an automatic pistol in his car, got him to admit he was Junior Burgunder. He swore that all he knew of the Phoenix killings was what he had heard over the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Model | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Rising fast in these tough times was a tough, nervous, roving-eyed, brown-haired young spy named Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and a Bolivian mother. He grew up in the section where Germán Busch was born, not far from most of Standard Oil's Bolivian fields. Dionisio Foianini studied pharmacy in Italy, returned to Bolivia before the Chaco War broke out, was put in charge of munitions manufacture. Then he visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Busch Putsch | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Cellist Gusikoff was not dismissed by Mr. Ormandy "because Gusikoff 'made him nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Wright had published nine scholarly books (What Nietzsche Taught, The Future of Painting, etc.), had worked himself into a nervous breakdown that turned his luck again. He spent two years in bed, unable to read, one more year reading and analyzing detective stories, the heaviest fare his doctor would allow him. When he was able to get around, he took to Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's the outline of three Philo Vance detective stories. As S. S. Van Dine, Wright wrote serialized best-sellers for a decade, so obscured his earlier reputation that when his identity was revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Monocled Journalist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Karl Landsteiner, 70. Nervous, Austrian-born Dr. Landsteiner won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discovering that there are four main types of human blood with at least 30 subtypes. As a result of his discovery, blood transfusion ha become a safe operation. His blood tests showed that anthropoid apes and human beings are more closely related than anthropoid apes and monkeys, or monkeys and men. More recently he has been working on the chemistry of body immunity. He has thrown light on the relationship of toxins and similar substances to the antibodies they provoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rockefeller Retirements | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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