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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Martin & Lewis nightclub act is a far smoother vehicle than the one they started rolling in Atlantic City, but it is still built along the same lines. It would be even better with tightening. The boys kid the orchestra, imitate each other, pour water on people's cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Talk of Show Business | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Except for Chic Young's Blondie and Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, no U.S. comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday Pictorial jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sacking of the Shmoo | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

The elder Warbis might have been exaggerating his dislike of son Thomas' work, for Warbis senior had submitted it to the exhibition in the first place. When Warbis junior and his mother went to see the show, the young artist had a chance to defend his own painting, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All the More Interesting | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Two Measures. Treatment No. 1 is antagonistic bacilli, taken by mouth in ginger ale or some other carbonated beverage. Once in the patient's system, the bacilli produce an "antibiotic" which kills off the typhoid germs in two weeks to a month. Treatment No. 2, a combination of penicillin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Typhoid Marys? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

was "Typhoid Mary" Mallon, reputed to have infected 57 people, three of whom died. She was carted off in 1907 by court order to New York City's North Brother Island, held there off & on until she died of a stroke in 1938.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No More Typhoid Marys? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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