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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the radio industry had time to cross its fingers over the President's intentions, he acted. Once more Franklin Roosevelt went outside FCC to pick a chairman. Like Frank McNinch, 41-year-old James Lawrence Fly made his name with the New Deal program. TVA's general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mopper-Upper | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Particularly proud of his medical knowledge is Courier Wagner, who has safaried with many a big game expedition through Africa without a single case of malaria or sleeping sickness. Three clients, however, were fanged by poisonous snakes. Courier Wagner brought them around by sucking their wounds, dusting them with permanganate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lunatic at Large | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Scarff's ventriculoscope is a metal tube three-eighths of an inch in diameter, ten inches long. At the bottom is a lens, two tiny electric lights, two threadlike rubber hoses, for maintaining adequate fluid pressure in the brain, and an electric wire for cauterizing. At the top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hydrocephalus | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

>Bellairs & friends once borrowed the corpse of a Chinese from the morgue, took it to a saloon, ordered plenty of drinks, left the Chinese to pay the bill. The bartender shook the Chinese to awaken him, knocked him down, tried desperately to hide the body while Bellairs & Co., peering through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Carl Shannon's reporting days ended when he misquoted Jim Reed in the Kansas City Star and his city editor found out he was growing deaf. Two decades of tramping from one paper to another wound him up in the town of Harlingen, Texas, where Colonel S. P. Etheredge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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