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Word: poisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standard hay-fever treatment is complicated, long-drawn-out, expensive and-in almost half the cases-no good. First a patient must be given a score of scratch tests on his arm to find out what pollens or other proteins poison him. Then for several months he must take a course of "desensitizing" injections to accustom him to growing doses of those irritants. Sometimes the injections give patients all the uncomfortable symptoms of asthma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Last Sniffle? | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Those who register or are reclassified in July should have the information blanks sent them by the college filled in before leaving for home. It's too late now to shift into the study of poison gas from the less lethal material dispensed in other departments, and it's too late to raise your Math A mark. Newspaper reports on whether the present draftees come back and how many new camps are built are the best guide to chances of ending your college career with a regular diploma. All the neophyte registrants can and should do is to make sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First of July | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

Pointing out the effect of Nazi propaganda on the United States in "The Poison in Our System" lead article of the current issue of the "Atlantic," Carl Joachim Friedrich, professor of Government, advocates a counter attack by the Americas to undermine the morale of Hitler's followers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friedrich Advises Cross Propaganda | 5/28/1941 | See Source »

Chair. In Pine Plains, N.Y., Fordham Botany Professor William J. Bonisteel, immune to ivy poisoning, reserved his favorite chair perpetually by ringing it 'round with a poison ivy patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...that easily recognizable mass schizophrenia or infantilism or call it what psychosis you will, which always takes possession of us when we find ourselves all alone in the great big, terrifying, dangerous, adult world. Remember last time, when we passed the strictest prohibition laws we could think up, put poison in the liquor, and then drank ourselves blind for 14 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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