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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these chairs and on our world-famous green benches than any others on earth. Many who came here to die-within 90 days-40 years ago are still waiting but not hoping. Your pappy, Father Time, is here but you wouldn't know him. Last seen he was chasing a bevy of our beach beauties-and not with a sickle. . . . Time marches on-in St. Petersburg-with a firm, sturdy and steady step. . . . [And] whereever one will find dear old grandmothers and grandfathers one will also find loving sons, daughters and grandchildren or are you listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...years ago General John Metaxas. with the help of George II, King of the Hellenes, became Premier and soon after War Minister, Navy Minister Air Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister. Added up, these offices spelled Dictator. Since that time short, fat, German-educated Dictator Metaxas has intermittently seen Red. Late in 1936 he directed one big "Red" purge. Early this year another one was staged. Between these events numerous minor roundups took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Reds | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Since no chemist can truly say that he has seen a molecule under the microscope, laymen may be mystified to hear scientific talk of "giant molecules." But molecules, infinitesimally tiny as they are by ordinary standards, vary greatly in size. Molecular weight of ethyl alcohol, for example, is 46 units; * of sodium chloride (salt), 58.5; of the hormone secretin, 5,000; of hemoglobin, about 68,000; of the thyroid substance thyroglobulin, about 700,000. Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley and his associates at the Rockefeller Institute have crystallized the virus which causes mosaic disease in tobacco, found that it weighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Red Giants | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...popped the important question, Flynn would gravely hold up three interrogating fingers, was invariably rewarded with almost hysterical assent. When his conscience hurts nowadays, Flynn recalls that many of the boys came out of the bush emaciated, ulcered, unhappy, but after a few months of British guidance could be seen spryly playing football, "healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Where dinosaurs walked of old, the placid Connecticut now flows. But the Geology boys found one exposure, well known to curiosity seekers. Unsatisfied with the few footprints to be seen, and inspired by the scars where thieves had already managed to escape with several spear, the boys began to hack away at the layers of rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinosaur Track Brought Home By Geologists During Field Trip | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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