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Word: tendering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appendicitis should be suspected if a person, especially one under 30, has a sharp pain and a tender spot a few inches to the right of and a little below his navel; if he has fever and a furred tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: More Appendicitis | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

They almost lost when Gunda the elephant tried to kill his keeper. Another keeper drove Gunda away by driving a pitchfork into the tender hind quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: One Month for Ducking | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...could not have picked a better time for a serious operation. Parliament had just adjourned till October; it was safe to leave the Liberals to the tender mercies of his faithful lieutenant, Sir Herbert Samuel, until then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hacmaturia | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

First act of Tsar Calles was to abolish the gold standard for Mexico, make the silver peso the only legal tender. Managing Director Alberto Mascarenas of the Bank of Mexico followed with the announcement that the entire issue of Mexico's gold notes would be withdrawn from circulation and burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Silver Standard | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

Next day's Parsifal was orchestrally poignant, lyric. Slower than most was Toscanini's tender reading. A magnificent Gurnemanz (Basso Ivar Andresen of the Metropolitan), a poetic Parsifal (Tenor Fritz Wolff), a comely but vocally insecure Kundry (Soprano Elisabeth Ohms), sang their way through Wagner's leisurely, sometimes philosophically turbid drama. The sets "dated from 1882 and looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: More Fun | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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