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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Führer Adolf Hitler is no man to take unnecessary risks. If the German Navy were to steam into Danzig Harbor and forcefully take over the Free City, Britain's Peace Front might well become a War Front. A neater, less dangerous solution would be for the Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANZIG: First Step? | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

For a long time, they said, researchers have known that cancer cells consume an abnormally small amount of oxygen. To find out why, Drs. Davis and Schmitz probed an enormous rat tumor, discovered small pockets of poisonous cyanogen gas along its borders. They also confirmed the presence of cyanogen along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Blue | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Chattered Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated Scripps-Howard column: "Someone sent me a wonderful clip to wear on my nose while swimming. ... I find, however, it is going to require some little time before I can breathe with ease through my mouth alone."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

When Walt Mason was 48 he had good reason to fear his fate. Small-town newsman with roving feet, he had drunk his way through many a sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Milestone: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Early in the 20th Century, peering through his microscope at the eggs of little marine animals called sea squirts (a diagram of a sea squirt egg appears beside him on TIME'S cover), Dr. Conklin upset this notion. He found differentiated tissue regions which later gave rise to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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