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Word: ora (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Digestive Discomfort." Physicians of Baltimore's famed Johns Hopkins Hospital thumped and scrutinized the President-Elect, last week, paying particular attention to his stomach. Señora Rubio was inspected by other doctors. The rest of the President-Elect's party slept in 14 rooms at the Hotel Belvedere. In Mexico the public had been led to suppose that something fairly serious is the matter with the stomach of the man they have elected President. But Dr. Charles R. Sutrian of Johns Hopkins curtly dispelled this illusion. "Examination shows a certain amount of digestive discomfort," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...past five years been discreetly studying anthropoid intelligence for God, for country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks at Havana where a Se?ora Rosalie and a Se?ora Abreu have colonies of simians. Professor Yerkes' Almost Human (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925) reported his observations on ape intelligence. Chimpanzee Intelligence and Its Vocal Expressions is a related study. Last week he was in Africa collecting specimens for a purpose which Yale's President James Rowland Angell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

National Colored (at Bordentown, N. J.) ?men's singles, Edgar G. Brown of Chicago; doubles, Eyre Saitch of Harlem. N. Y. & Sylvester Smith of Baltimore: women's singles, Ora Washington of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titles | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Mackinac Island, Mich., last week were 2,000 self-supporting women. Members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.B.P.W.C. | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...second violinist was courteous, but the misguided show-off had blundered. He might as well have told one of the six Floradora girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flonzaley Farewell | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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