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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several days after the children were twinned Dr. Moran noticed that Clara was growing stronger, John weaker. Her red blood cells were increasing, his decreasing. As the tube stretched to 20 inches John grew sick and dizzy, finally developed acute anemia and lapsed into a coma. Giving up the graft experiment, Dr. Moran quickly cut the Siamese twins apart, found that Clara, like a vampire, had drained out John's blood through a net of capillaries which had formed on John's end of the tube. No capillaries had formed on her end of the tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vampire | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...investigator of U. S. Indian music is a spry, 71-year-old, grey-haired woman, Frances Densmore. For the past 45 years, methodical Spinster Densmore has periodically left her old family home in Red Wing, Minn, to traipse over North America salvaging Indian war whoops and love songs, which she stuffed away in her oldfashioned, wax-cylinder recording machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoop Collector | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...broke journalistic taboos by publishing a pink-covered campaign booklet called "Deadline," crammed with the pro-Benson opinions their papers did not want. First edition ran to 100,000 copies. Excerpts: "We've written about Gov. Elmer Benson for two years. We know he is going forward. . . . The Red menace was a red herring. And smelled even fishier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporters Know! | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Married. The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 64, Canterbury Cathedral's "Red Dean" ("There is more Christianity in Soviet Russia and Red Spain than there is in England"); and 31-year-old Nowell Mary Edwards, his second cousin; at Craven Arms, Shropshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...fists and skull and without weapons of any sort, I can whip Amos Allen on less street-space in Greenup than the length of his body. . . . The blood I shed from the three wounds was more than a quart. . . . For every drop of blood I shed - yes, for every red, sticky drop - I shall write 10,000 words in ink exposing this 'gang' work in Greenup County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenup Poet | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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