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Word: swallowable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harding for his freedom is not made quite clear. In the cinema, a smile from the villainous Margaret turns the trick. In real life the trick would be turned down the sink if unfaithfulness were as unattractive as it is in "The Lady Consents." But if you can swallow this one incredibility, you will enjoy he picture...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/15/1936 | See Source »

...territory, patriotic Major General Hayao Tada, whose appetite is enormous, was sent to sprawling, international Tientsin to command the Japanese garrisons in North China. Last week voracious General Tada called in 20 Japanese correspondents to give them a pamphlet and his views on how much of China Japan should swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Appetite in Paradise | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Atrocities, slaves, fate. Since the rest of the warm-hearted world will not easily swallow such ice-hearted candor, Il Duce's Son-in-Law Count Ciano worked happily away in his Ministry of Propaganda last week. His best Ethiopian atrocity: "On the night of May 31 wild Ethiopian tribesmen captured 4,000 head of cattle from an outpost in Italian Eritrea and carried off as slaves a number of men and women. The tribesmen mutilated several children who were abandoned bleeding on desert sands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God Help Africa! | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus I made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The King and the Sea | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Naughty Children | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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