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Word: substitutees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Zabala was still in front after eight miles. Then the crowd at a street intersection saw Margarito Pomposa Banos, the Mexican, catch up and go past him. Five miles further on, Zabala was first again. At 15 miles another runner caught him. This time it was Lauri Virtanen, Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Xth Olympiad | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

¶Vice President Charles Curtis set out from Washington as President Hoover's substitute to open the games.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympiana | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Home Loans. What held the Congress in late session was a deadlock on the Home Loan Bank bill, last item on President Hoover's general relief program. Both houses were agreed upon a system of eight to twelve regional banks, backed by $125,000,000 from the Treasury, at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Session's End | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

At the insistence of the Speaker who failed to answer the President's criticism or explain the machinery for private loans the House approved the relief bill 202-to-157. The Senate later passed it 43-to-31. President Hoover vetoed it ten minutes after it reached the White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Remember November! | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Insulin is a hormone secreted by the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Its function is to regulate the combustion and storage of sugar in the body. Failure of these small cellular masses causes blood sugar to increase abnormally. Withdrawal of sugar from the tissues results in hunger, weakness, loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: More for Diabetics | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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