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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hole through the girl's ribs and stuck an aspirating needle into the "blister." No fluid oozed through the needle's lumen. The professor poked again. Unexpectedly bright red blood spurted from the hollow needle. The "blister" was really an aneurism, a bulging of the girl's weak-walled heart, and he had ruptured the heart. Her blood was flooding through the rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rent Heart | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...take a train to Washington Park race course was Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. "leg man" (newsgatherer but not writer) for the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper man with racketeering side interests. Just after he bought a newspaper and entered the tunnel, some one in the human current moved up behind him, stuck a sawed-off revolver behind his head and pulled the trigger. As the shot barked through the crowded tunnel and people screamed. Lingle pitched forward to the pavement, newspaper still clutched under his arm, cigar in teeth, instantly dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Conclusions of a Crowd | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...Woodbridge, N. J., Joseph Chotosh, 22, drove his automobile out of his garage into a mudhole. It stuck. Chotosh's anger rose. He pushed, pulled, called his mother and sister to help, cursed, to no avail. Finally, unable to bear his own choler. Joseph Chotosh drew out a revolver and shot himself dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 13, 1931 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Blinded by the storm's wrack on the open road, Driver Carl Miller steered into a ditch. The wheels spun, the bus stuck. There were 20 children in the bus, including Carl Miller's eight-year-old daughter Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: School Bus | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Bell did not possess a fountain pen, so in order to be on the safe side he had obtained a cheap pen holder and pen from the hotel, wrapped it up in a bit of newspaper and stuck it into his waistcoat pocket. He produced it and used it to affix his signature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mutter of Versailles | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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