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Word: nestful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford's office is a nest of papers, topped by the model of a foot--all that was found after a European madman had dissolved an unknown number of people in a vat of sulphuric acid. In addition to being chief of the Legal Medicine Department; he is on the National Committee that drew up plans for a model lego-medical investigation system for states and large cities...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Department of Legal Medicine Uses Dandruff, Pieces of Skin and Old Bones to Catch Killers | 10/10/1951 | See Source »

...said one investigator working on the case, "some guy was given the bird by his girl to feather his nest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooter Hovers Here, While Waban Worries | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

...insect sting is another man's poison. In Rye, N.Y. last week, Charles Pilger Jr., 28, was stung by a bee, died a few minutes later when his swollen larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...have lost the feeling of belonging to one reassuring community, to New England or the United States, or to Western civilization, to be sustained and supported by one of these localizations. But they are gone, they are going and they are gone in that sense of being a psychic nest, and the scientist and poet took them away...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...have lost the feeling of belonging to one reassuring community, to New England or the United States, or to Western civilization, to be sustained and supported by one of these localizations. But they are gone, they are going and they are gone in that sense of being a psychic nest, and the scientist and poet took them away...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

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