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Word: sameness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, long before the recent war scare, Dr. Dunn received from England a consignment of mice with a hereditary defect. Their teeth grew backward into their jaws, causing early death from malnutrition. Reason for this shipment was the same: fear of destruction by bombs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Refugee Rats | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

In addition, through the gay pattern of his waltzes, sung or played with an effectiveness rarely surpassed on a cinema sound track, The Great Waltz lightly weaves a fragmentary legend of the composer's life. The result is an operetta in which, for once, story and score become part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

That The Great Waltz succeeds so notably in evoking the flowery nostalgia inherent in Strauss's music may be partly due to the ironic fact that world events have made imperial Vienna something more than the stock romantic setting it was when a similar operetta had its Manhattan stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

*Mr. Hanson's theory was a simple reductio ad absurdum with which neither publishers, Guild nor common practice agree. The Act sets 44 hours as the maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Overtime | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Practically the same type of treatment will be tried in Fort Worth, which will be directed by Dr. William Frederick Ossenfort and accommodate 1,000 men. But in spite of modern treatment and exhaustive psychological analyses, few addicts ever recover. Other interesting facts released by the Public Health Service:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Addicts | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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