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Word: personably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Germany for underrating British strength.* In an even plainer warning the Foreign Secretary referred to stop signs on British highways: "HALT! MAJOR ROAD AHEAD!" and implied that those nations that were crossing "major roads" without "halting" might soon find themselves confronted with a husky international policeman in the person of John Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dying v. Paying | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Paul's indignation. Cinemaddicts with imagination might find that he and his 80-year-old mother are rudely caricatured, along with other celebrities of Manhattan night life, including its fat hostess, Elsa Maxwell (now under contract to a rival company, Twentieth Century-Fox). Columnist Beebe, however, appears in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...irregular or abnormal discharge of fluid or blood from any body opening; any sore which does not heal in two weeks; small tender spots on the lips and tongue of smokers; loss of appetite and indigestion; persistent hoarseness not caused by a cold; moles, warts and wens. Every person has an average of 27 small blemishes on his body, says Dr. Little. At middle age these "small centers of overgrowth of tissue" may start to grow again and become tender. Prompt treatment prevents them from becoming cancerous...

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

...priests and lay groups have given the Chicago Newspaper Guild in its strike against the Herald & Examiner and American has been a matter of grave concern to pious Catholic Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearst-papers. Month ago he reportedly made a vain effort to present in person the Hearst case to George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last week, the American began a series of articles on "The Youth Problem" by well-loved Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and ranking Chicago hierarch during Cardinal Mundelein's absence in Rome. Some Catholic friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Surprise | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Today is the last day upon which courses beginning in the second half year may be changed (dropped or added) without liability of the courses fee. Petitions must be filed in person at Room C. University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO ALL UNDERGRADUATES | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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