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Word: snaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Rumania, Russia wants control of bridgeheads on the Prut and at Reni on the Danube and Snake Island in the Danube's mouth, which would give Russia control of Central Europe's main waterway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: What Molotov Wants | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

With his law of similars, and his minuscule doses, homeopaths claim that Hahnemann anticipated the principle of vaccination. Some of his remedies, such as snake venom for control of hemorrhage, are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Homeopathy | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...still ranks second only to being President of the U. S. Founded in 1832 by a group of disgruntled Phi Beta Kappa-rejects, Bones is the oldest and most sacred of Yale's six senior secret societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club, Book & Snake, Berzelius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Skull & Bones | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ..." members of the Little Pine Mountain Church of God were vexed when Kentucky's Legislature recently passed a law imposing a $50-$100 fine on those who (after June 12) "display, handle or use a snake or reptile in a religious service." Pastor George Washington Hensley last week told how his church, by testing faith by poison, had already got around the Legislature: "Brother Bradley Shell took a large dose of strychnine powders about 6 o'clock. We stayed with him until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Akin to Hollywood's picture business is the business of retailing. Glossy, high-priced executives move from store to store, accompanied by troops of favorite underlings. Terms like "genius," "snake," "megalomaniac," are indiscriminately applied. Last week, in the gossipy lianas of the trade, the No. 2 U. S. retailer of general merchandise was getting more than his share of epithets. His name: Sewell Lee Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Mr. Avery's Ex-Men | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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