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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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One morning last week Trinity's churchyard at the head of Wall Street slept humidly under a blazing sun, while some 250 men-public utilitarians, newsmen, drawling politicians from Tennessee-met on the sixth floor of Manhattan's First National Bank. They were there to witness an epochal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Appomattox Court House | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

What does make darker races darker is a larger proportion of fine, microscopic granules of black melanin scattered throughout the upper layers of their skin. In upper skin layers melanin disintegrates, turns into melanoid, the other pigment discovered in the skin by Drs. Edwards and Duntley. Everybody has some melanin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skin Colors | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

The Hobby Lobby is an NBC Wednesday nighter that now sells Fels-Naptha soap chips by rounding up collector's items in hobbyists. In its time, it has cluttered NBC's elegant Radio City studios with all sorts of oddities ranging from a man whose hobby was training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S-L-E-E-P | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Nope. Mr. Klein's act would never do. The Hobby Lobby has some 5 million listeners. If even a hundred of them corked off, without Mr. Klein in the living room to wake them up, it could make a mightier stir than the Orson Welles-invoked invasion from Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S-L-E-E-P | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Anatomists have long held that white skins are tinted by three pigments: melanin, a black chemical; hemoglobin, a reddish substance which colors the blood; oxyhemoglobin, a form of hemoglobin in combination with oxygen. They also believed that Negroes and Orientals are darker than Caucasians partly because of the presence of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skin Colors | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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