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Word: personably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medically speaking, insanity is a disease of the mind such as schizophrenia or paranoia. But in the eyes of the law, insanity may be a temporary mental derangement which renders a person not responsible for his acts. After Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, a Manhattan neurologist, told a jury that Thaw was thus deranged at the time of the shooting, he was acquitted, confined in an asylum. Later a jury found him sane, set him free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Verdict | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Stimulates the linings of bloodvessels, lymph channels and certain organs to produce substances which defend a person against the disease from which he happens to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Charcoal Treatment | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...always a running away from something? . . . It's more difficult to make your way among millions of your equals and betters than to shoot a few savages and animals and suffer some little inconveniences. The wild animals are less predatory too than the nicest people. Safer, for a person like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neurotic Imperialist | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...reported that several rhinoceros toes belonging to the brouze statues in front of the Biological Laboratories were painted red yesterday morning by a person or persons unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhinoceros Painted | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...material about Newton, and he draws freely on other biographers. But Sullivan was fascinated by the human being which harbored such a magnificent mind, and from the available material he tried to draw, with fair success, a clearer picture of the 17th Century's greatest scientist as a person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sullivan's Newton | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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