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Word: pick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammer, anvil and stirrup"-into the inner ear. There the main sound-wave receiver is sunk deep in a massive bone at the base of the skull. This receiver is a winding snail of bone, the cochlea, filled with fluid, lined with feathery nerve endings. These nerve endings pick up incoming sound waves, relay them to the auditory nerve, which carries them to the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...south is the deepest and widest approach. Here are a "boom" and submarine net barrier* as well as hundreds of mines, doubtless of the controlled type operable by electric switch ashore. Infrared "electric eye" detectors for surface craft are also believed installed at Hoy and Hoxa. To pick his way through such barriers, Prien would have needed a map furnished either by spies or by aerial reconnaissance cameras. Another theory of how he got in is that he disguised his superstructure to resemble a British submarine and boldly followed in the wake of a returning British ship, copying her recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...British cruiser last week chased the German freighter Havelland into Manzanillo on the west coast of Mexico where she evidently intended to pick up gas and oil supplies. Same day the German tanker Emmy Friederich slid out of Tampico on Mexico's other coast, carrying 39,500 barrels of oil and a lot of livestock, lumber and cloth. She said she was bound for Malmö, Sweden, but observers guessed she had a U-boat rendezvous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Oh, Mother! | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...lies or kneels down behind his machine, sets his wheels spinning round with a touch of his finger. Such a fence, apart from the chevaux de frise of bayonets behind it, forms an obstacle which few horses, if any, would face; and the men inside, in perfect security, can pick off the advancing horsemen with deadly effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deadly Effect | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY - W. Somerset Maugham - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Melodrama within melodrama, made credible by Maugham's professional slickness, Christmas Holiday describes the shattering Paris holiday of a safe-&-sane young Englishman. Shatterers are a strip-tease pick up, who tells him about her marriage to a man who murdered for sport; a boyhood friend who is grooming himself to head the OGPU of a future Communist England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recent Books: FICTION | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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