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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This deluge of florid tributes to the late Dr. Tucker was brought forth by a bill introduced by Congressman Smith, which would allow the producers of the specific (now Dr. William B. Robinson and his son Dr. Gerard Briscoe Robinson, a graduate of Yale Medical School) to continue their business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Balm of Gilead | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Beirut to Elk City. Michael Shadid was born in a little stone hut on the olive-clad slopes of Mount Lebanon in Syria. He worked his way through the village school, later through the American University's high school in Beirut. Then young Michael went in steerage to New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooperative Doctor | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

The fire first broke out in the bakery. Before firemen could chop down the door, it was licking up through the gleaming white superstructure. Other blazes had mysteriously broken out from her cutwater to her overhanging stern. While wharf crews took off her cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Jinx | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

For two months a committee of the New York Curb Exchange hunted high & low for a man who cynics said did not exist. To be the Curb's first paid president the committee wanted someone with executive ability, personality, contacts and nerve; someone who had taken no part in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Palm Tree to Curb | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Figurehead and real head of the fair is Grover Aloysius Whalen. And the fair as it stands today-a $157,000,000 extroversion of Mr. Whalen's fantastic extrovert personality-gives him fair claim to the title of greatest salesman alive today. Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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