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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sandburg came back to hometown Galesburg wearing the blue of a private who had seen service with the 6th Illinois Volunteers in Porto Rico. Hero Sandburg resumed his poverty-ridden studies at Lombard College. Edgar Lee Masters came to Knox College from Kansas, stayed several years, and prepared for life in a law office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER These Names Make News | 10/13/1936 | See Source »

...base of the human evolutionary stem. But Sir Arthur Keith, while admitting certain manlike features, put him on the same branch with gorillas and chimpanzees, though on a separate twig. After several years the lower jaw was detached from the upper, and the crowns of the milk teeth were seen to be almost wholly human in form. Dr. William King Gregory of Columbia, a world authority on the dental development of primates, located the Taungs skull close to the point of human origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Heads | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...been observed to "change herself into a horse and walk on her hind legs," and that she had also caused "horns to appear on her head." The New York Post, too, printed a special dispatch from Woodbridge. The Postman heard a woman say that one night she had seen the witch "dressed in the skin of an animal, with a stream of fire over her head." The New York Sun reported Mrs. Czinkota's neighbors believed her to have mixed magic brews while mysterious balls of fire had shot from her head. According to the Sun, Mrs. Czinkota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Witch | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...members were informed by wire that one Theresa Czinkota had been publicly accused of witchcraft by five of her neighbors in the town's Hungarian section. In rich detail the A. P. told how spying neighbors described to a Police Recorder what they had seen through the windows of Mrs. Czinkota's home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Witch | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...frames a second, or 32 frames for the cycle. For unusually thick patients, through whom x-rays do not penetrate easily, the operators slow the camera twelve or eight frames a second. Thin people can stand 24 frames a second. The four chambers of their hearts then can be seen contracting on the projection screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Rays at Cleveland | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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