Search Details

Word: tensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Every year, tens of thousands of lives could be saved in the U.S. if doctors throughout the country knew as much about treating stomach cancer as is known in a few topnotch medical centers. Dr. Carl A. Moyer of Dallas reported this conclusion last week to the Radiological Society of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Preventable Deaths | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

For most of us, if we have the urge to try it, the trail to literary success will be a long one, full of overflowing wastebaskets, piles of rejection slips and tens of thousands of unprinted words. And most of us will never make it.

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

What makes a man manly or a woman womanly-or vice versa? Many homosexuals are living proof that physical organs alone are not decisive. Freud and his followers argued that the sexual personality was often determined by seemingly trivial incidents in childhood. When the so-called "sexual hormones" (testosterone in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Sex | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

¶ A breakfast-cereal manufacturer will print "tens of thousands" of packages of "Samsonized" corn flakes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Deluge | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

The crowded inhabitants of big cities tried to live cannily. They avoided hot subway gratings and steaming manholes as martens avoid traps; when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Heat | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next