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Word: patients (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place "all get-out" accurately in time but I should not put it earlier than the covered-wagon period. The folk lore often expressed is probably thus: a wheel comes unstuck and papa has to fix it. "All get out" he calls and the family climb down with patient resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...political physician diagnosing Europe's health would have reported that while the patient still had some fever and complications might easily set in, there was still a 50-50 chance that he would regain normal health. One reason for that chance is obviously that the democracies have a little more marrow in their bones since Munich. French and British defense-and hence morale-have distinctly improved. Mr. Roosevelt's tough talk against the dictatorships has helped. It was even possible to construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pulse | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Some time ago plant scientists at Texas' Agricultural and Mechanical College started trying to develop a cotton plant whose bolls would contain plenty of seeds but little or no fibre. Last week they announced that, by patient crossbreeding of natural "mutants" or freaks, they had succeeded. They even had photographs of the process (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cottonless Cotton | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

With a big plot transfusion from "The Citadel," Hollywood has tried to revive a hackneyed nurse-doctor, plot called. "Four Girls in White," the second feature. The patient died during the transfusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...suspected growth a bit of living tissue, which is immediately frozen by a stream of carbon dioxide from a high-pressure tank. Then it is cut into thin sections and mounted on a microscope slide. The whole procedure takes only a few minutes, is usually performed while a patient lies on the operating table. If microscopic examination shows that the cells are malignant, a surgeon can start to operate at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Handbook | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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