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Word: paras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rolled down the hillsides, later gave way to hard-boiled eggs. Across the Irish Sea the custom was known as "trundling," and one Irish historian noted suspiciously that "it is a curious circumstance that this sport is produced only by the Presbyterians." No Presbyterian, President Rutherford B. Hayes, a para-Methodist, established egg rolling on the White House lawn. Before his time, children had rolled their eggs down the Capitol slopes as a climax to their annual Sunday School Union parades, but Congress was fussy about its grass, and ordered them off the premises in 1877. Hayes welcomed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Oomancing Monday | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...with Beth Israel and Boston City hospitals, Dr. Sieve now practices in his own clinic, alone except for six technicians. He has had a remarkable variety of medical interests: the ductless glands, nutrition, hemorrhage, fertility and now antifertility. , Eleven years ago Dr. Sieve was among those who proclaimed that para-aminobenzoic acid would restore grey hair to its original color. By now, the medical profession has discarded this idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Anti-Fertility Factor | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...best treatment, doctors now believe, calls for injections of streptomycin into the spinal fluid as well as the muscles. Because some tubercle bacilli develop resistance to the antibiotic, the patients are also given para-aminosalicylic acid (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Against T.B. | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Last week, after many months of increasing Caiapó depredations, the State of Para Chamber of Commerce sent an angry telegram to Brazil's Congress, "transmitting the intense clamor of the state's population against the murdering of rubber tappers and nut gatherers by the Caiapó Indians." It noted that "at a time when Brazil needs its rubber for its economy, security and defense," production in the area had dropped from 2,000 to 400 tons a year as frightened cabodos refused to venture into Caiapó territory. Worse, the Indians, in addition to bows & arrows, clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: On the Warpath | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...tres-cuatro Tenemos Perón para rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Air We Breathe | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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