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Word: queerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mare never speaks out, never clothes his spooks in a simple declarative manner. They might be merely states of mind, queer tricks of sensation, strange coincidences. There is nothing solid in this dank mistiness that you can lay your finger on, but you feel it. Sometimes it chills you to the bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Borderline Cases | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Happy Endings," best story in the book, the narrator describes his pre-War crammer's school for the Army, the queer lives of its personnel, what happy endings the late great War brought to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atheism to Theosophy* | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...that it is a queer document is to put the case mildly. Of the eleven members of the commission, ten subscribe to the general recommendations, which are dry in effect and in implication. But six members, in the individual opinions which all had the privilege of setting forth, strike a note not at all in accord with the conclusions of the committee as a whole. Two of them advocate absolute repeal, and the four others would have the Amendment revised to lodge with Congress the power to (1) continue the present system of national prohibition, or (2) to remit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Sham Report | 1/21/1931 | See Source »

League Report. There is nothing new in the League report on Liberian slave conditions. It is important because it exonerates the U. S. Firestone rubber interests of slaving. This was most important to Secretary Stimson. If he had whitewashed Firestone while tarring Liberia, the whole thing might have looked queer to Europe, queerer to Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Sound Swishing | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

What the Public Can Do is to go promptly, fearlessly to a doctor with the first sign of what might be Cancer. Such signs include: any unusual lump in the flesh, especially in the breast; any persistent sore; any queer acting mole, wart or other skin peculiarity; any dribble of blood from the mouth or other body openings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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