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Word: roses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mourners knew that the cancerous men and women there, almost 100, were getting the devoted care of the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St. Rose of Lima. They could picture the white-clad sisters wiping away the fetid pus from cancerous lesions, applying cool unguents, making the patients comfortable, even injecting a merciful dose of morphine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother Alphonsa | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Vardar River was the offender farther south in Jugoslavia. It rose 22 feet, whirled away bridges, houses, vehicles, pedestrians, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Summer Portents | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...buildings were to be erected, and it was expected some 3,000 would annually visit there. Merchants were pleased. Then the storm broke. Artists of many kinds who had gone to Santa Fe to make the old city their home, residents who had been attracted by its ancient beauty, rose in protest. "What will happen to our fine old town," they asked, "if you bring here a transient population half as large as that we now have?" This was not an isolated cry such as now and then rises in other towns. It was a tempest which echoed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bigger and Better | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...holding a bundle baby-wise; she got into the car, a coat was thrown over her head, a sickly sweet odor sickened her. . . . She woke somewhere in a cot at dawn. Two men stood over her. One of them was named Steve. The woman's name was Rose. They told her that she could go free as soon as her mother (Mrs. Minnie Kennedy) or her congregation raised $500,000 ransom. . . . (Later version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Return | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Again last week the talk rose . . . he would resign at the end of the year. With a benignity that was a conscious principle with him a generation ago, a benignity that is now an irritating habit, he put off the questioners-no immediate resignation-still active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

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