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Word: stomachly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hapgood stressed the fact that at times he had to get down on his stomach and perform various other dexterities in order to get through doors and around corners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOM JUGGLER ACTS BEFORE CHEERING THAYER THRONG | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...semi-invalid racked with stomach trouble and boils, Darwin retired to the country, rarely budged for 40 years. It took him 20 years to work up nerve enough to publish the Origin of Species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Timid Giant | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Buck as "the most ferocious, most terrifying and most dangerous of all living creatures."* A coastal gorilla from the swamps of the Belgian Congo, Gargantua was brought to the U. S. as a baby by Captain Arthur Phillips, was bought by Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, animal-training wife of a stomach specialist, grew to apehood in Brooklyn. Now seven years old, 460 pounds when last weighed, with a savage 6-foot arm reach that has mauled many a bystander including Owner John Ringling North, Gargantua began to get ferocious only six months ago. Until then-at which time she got busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Jungle to Garden | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...There are 23 different places in the body where various kinds of cancers occur. Examination for cancer should include search of the skin, mouth, throat, lungs, stomach & bowels, rectum, prostate, uterus and breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Club | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Refugees and Grandees. Terrified Leftist citizens who made their way to the French frontier, hoping to be permitted to leave Spain, were being turned back meanwhile by Leftist guards. Perhaps because Anarchists were thought to have the best stomach for such work, the Barcelona Government sent the recently jailed Anarchist leaders, Rosique and Cot, up to the French frontier to hold it against all refugees. Meanwhile, the bombers over Barcelona began dropping leaflets: "SURRENDER, OR PERISH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Barcelona Horrors | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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