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Word: teethes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

Emilie and Marie each have 17 teeth, the others 16. They can now brush their own teeth, comb their own hair, dress themselves completely (except for shoe-tying), go to the toilet alone. They feed themselves and for the past month have been carrying their empty dishes from the table to the pantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: . . . And How They Grew | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...Congress' flouting of the President's wishes during his vacation absence consisted of nothing more serious than overriding his veterans' pension veto, taxing Philippine coconut oil, extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange Bill. The nation was still in crisis, Franklin Roosevelt was still its supremely popular leader. Congressional elections were only half a year away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fighting Clothes | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...hardy non-unionists tried to crash the picket lines, best scrap being put up by irate old H. L. Queen, longtime company storekeeper. "I've got a job and I'm going to it," cried he. When pickets seized him, H. L. Queen sank his teeth into a striker's hand (see cut), was dragged away with bleeding lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland's security because of Russia's nearness." Foreign Minister Beck, in earnest conversations with King Carol, sought to renew and put teeth into the 1921 Polish-Rumanian Treaty. If he succeeded, the Rome-Berlin axis would be completely buffered on the east except for Czechoslovakia, satellite of "Marxist" France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Axis Forging | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...whale, a gigantic snapping sea turtle, an octopus, a sawfish and a tiger shark. There are many repetitions of the dramatic moment when, spying some deep-sea enemy, Caswell, "The Man of Steel, G-Man of the Deep," rips off his breeches and dives to the attack, knife in teeth. Audiences will guess that some energetic harpooning of the monsters has preceded Caswell's scrimmages: the fish stay on the surface to be photographed in a manner fish seldom consent to unless submergence is impossible due to the fact that they are nine-tenths dead and full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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