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Word: poisoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot can hardly be called revolutionary. A man is trying to murder his fabulously rich wife, and using a combination of hypnosis, poison, and George Couloris to turn the trick. Naturally he is conducting a Secret Amour with an earthy young damsel, and naturally the here, who would ordinarily be on his way to China, saves th Unsuspecting wife Three times from Certain Death. That a respectable film can be made with such a framework is a personal triumph for producer Mary Pickford, America's erstwhile sweetheart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

Only by uniting the U.S. and Europe's democracies in a federal union with common citizenship, Roberts thinks, can the U.S. draw the poison from this donor-beggar relationship. Roberts appealed to a higher logic than dollars & cents: "Free men are the best assets we have outside the U.S.; men who think and act like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Lend & Lose? | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...rumors of impending currency reform, took the rubles he had hoarded in his boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove his wolfhound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tombstones & Wolf Traps | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...physiologists and president of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, was suspicious of white bread. Dr. Carlson pointed an accusing finger at nitrogen trichloride, a bleaching agent used in 90% of all white flour milled in the U.S. The bleaching agent makes wheat protein act like a nerve poison; dogs given large amounts of the bleached flour developed running fits. It may make people nervous, too, reported Dr. Carlson-and may even make it easier for them to become alcoholics. Said he: "Maybe we should provide, without delay, more iron in the education of our children, and less nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Age of Anxiety | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...paramecium is a minute one-celled animal which multiplies both non-sexually (by simple division) and by a kind of primitive pairing. Several years ago, Dr. Sonneborn discovered that special strains of paramecia give off a poison (paramecin) that kills normal paramecia. The "killers" differ from the "sensitives" in only one known respect: the amount of a substance called "kappa" which they contain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planets & Paramecia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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