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Word: pulp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dovetails neatly with the medical belief that tonsillectomies and tooth extractions are dangerous during polio season. Reason: many polio infections enter the body through exposed nerves in the nose or mouth, travel along nerves to the spinal cord, where their ravages begin. "The rich nerve supply of the dental pulp offers a most formidable invasion point for the virus," explain Drs. Reese and Frisch. Some of their evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Door | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...first short story was published in a Florida newspaper when she was an awkward nine-year-old. She went on to study law, worked as a newspaper reporter, wrote a sports column for the Tampa Tribune. In 1938 she moved to New York, nibbled at radio crumbs, wrote pulp fiction. She hit the big time last year when she sold her program idea to Mutual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Know-How Woman | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...emasculated OPA bill a week ago was perhaps the bravest thing he has done since entering the White House. But revived hopes for a genuinely effective price control bill have faded once again in the face of amendments to the new bill to exempt oil, cotton, and pulp products from control, the Taft proposal for manufacturer's profits and the delaying tactics of Senators Wherry and O'Daniel. Thus the bitter paradox continues by which the majority of people, who ardently desire the retention of price controls are defied by their elected representatives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strike! | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Superman Enterprises and a dozen comic-book publishers had applied to cover the big show, and were turned down; representatives of Air Aces, a bi-monthly pulp comic, and Charm, a fashion slick, were accepted. No group was more peeved at being slighted than the British press, which was given a quota of three newsmen; Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia each had as many. Russia and nine other nations were allowed one each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Assignment A-Bomb | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...hair-raising war-between-the-sexes that chilled U.S. marrows in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce. A well-told tale whose deadpan savagery suggests that it was written with the tip of an icicle, it features enough lust and mayhem per page to shame a pulp novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love's Lovely Confederates | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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