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Word: originated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oliver Wendell Holmes did not "coin the word anesthesia." He suggested the word "anesthesia" and indicated in his letter the origin of this word and its definition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Urged passage of laws to require premarital medical tests, recommended that Methodist parents instruct their children before adolescence "on the origin of life and the nature of their personalities as it relates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists Meet | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...bananas, berries and pears with caramel sauce on it. That's about all, but don't hurry though. That's the dollar dinner I want served next week when I get off the train from Washington." Dr. Smith tries to identify speakers' places of origin by their pronunciation. and, what is more, does so about 70% of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Where Are You From? | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Although the origin of the light in the corona is unknown, Professor Menzel said that there is a direct relation between great upheavals in the sun's corona and the occurrence of magnetic storms on earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Plans to Construct World's Highest Observatory | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Washington, D. C., April 23--The common observation that the full moon seems about twice as large at the horizon as it does in the sky overhead has a physiological origin in the eye-movements of human beings, Harvard psychologists told the National Academy of Sciences today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apparent Change In Size of Moon Is Merely an Illusion | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

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