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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Determined to keep their hard-won baby, the Jacksons frantically combed Manhattan every day for a month, seeking a doctor who would offer them some hope. Last spring at the Neurological Institute they found young Dr. John Edwin Scarff. By this time the head of little eleven-pound Alice measured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hydrocephalus | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

To psychiatrists, Linnea's case was no puzzle. Anorexia nervosa (hysterical lack of appetite) often occurs in unstable women who are unconsciously afraid to grow up, and, according to Freudians, derive a childish sexual pleasure from finicky eating (oral eroticism). Some, like Linnea, gorge themselves on childish foods, others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lollipop Death | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Police Reporter Kenneth George Bellairs returned from his vacation to the St. Louis police department, which he has covered, off & on, for one paper or another, since 1891. Son of a British Army captain who came to the U. S. to grow beans and ran the St. Louis zoo instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: August Records, Aug. 7, 193 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Scarlatti: Eleven Sonatas (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas, some of them uncommonly modern for his time (1685-1757), were what the word originally meant, pieces "to be sounded," dances, preludes, fugues, etc. Casadesus plays them fastidiously.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: August Records, Aug. 7, 193 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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