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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army. What went rolling over Texas' dusty roads last week, sometimes by day in a cloud of dust, sometimes at night with an endless, ominous growl of motors, was something the like of which not only Texas but no one else in the U. S. had ever seen before. It was the "P. I. D."-Proposed Infantry Division-which, under consideration for two years, was being tested for the first time under combat conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Texas Preview | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...pattern of his reflected beam by moving an electron collector around in the recoil region. Connected to an ammeter, the collector translated the strength of the electron beam at a number of points into measured electric current. The pattern having been thus patiently and ingeniously mapped out, it was seen to consist of true diffraction rings. Concluded the researchers: "Our experiments establish the wave nature of moving electrons with the same certainty as the wave nature of X-rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Prizes | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Causes. Dr. Young, a professor at Johns Hopkins, who is the dean of American urologists, knows of only 20 indisputable cases of true hermaphroditism, patients who had within themselves both ovaries and testes-sole and essential criteria of femininity or masculinity. All others whom he has seen in his 40 years as urological surgeon, or has read about, have been pseudo-hermaphrodites. These exhibit a most amazing variety of genital abnormalities. But on the testimony of their sex glands, no matter how rudimentary those glands might be. Dr. Young classifies them as male or female. Statistics, he notes, "indicate that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abnormalities | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...most ardent devotees of the sport in the first weeks of practice, is the thrill that follows an earned victory. Often this year that thrill was snatched from the team by a run of bad luck, the like which hardened sports writers admitted they had not seen in many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEFORE THE TUMULT AND SHOUTING DIE | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Heading the backfield, of course, is Captain Clint Frank, acclaimed by all who have seen him this year the best Yale back of all time. He passes, runs, tackles fiercely, and calls the signals. Local reports that Boston is greatly enthused about him are justified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale News Sports Editor Foresees Victory After Close Game Tomorrow | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

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