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Word: personent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government debated long over the proffered gift, then decided to thank the General just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Silver Shield | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...article brought an immediate call at the Foreign Office from German Minister Prinz Viktor zu Wied, who called it a gross insult on the person of the Field Marshal. The author of that gross insult, it turned out, was none other than the Knight of the Silver Shield-Nils Silfver sköld, brother-in-law of Field Marshal Göring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Silver Shield | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Every 3.3 seconds, a patient enters a U. S. hospital. During 1938 one person in 14 became a hospital patient. If he went to a general hospital he stayed about twelve days. Each year this average period of hospitalization "is clipped shorter and shorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U. S. Hospitals | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...claim to majority support. Members of the pro-insurance group felt that a number of doctors, who might have sent in mailed ballots voting for their side, did not vote at all because of a stipulation that the ballots must be delivered to the society's headquarters in person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors in Politics | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...visit to Manhattan, blonde British Cinemactress Binnie Barnes babbled: "I don't think sex comes from the body. . . . I have been told I am a sexy person. ... I represent, I believe, the modern-day siren. A few years ago it was Mae West. It is no longer Mae West. Tell me, would you like to go out with Mae West or would you prefer to go out with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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