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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Bowler McGeorge and some of the boys decided to have a try at the slick alleys and new wood at the American Bowling Congress up in Cleveland. It was Bowler McGeorge's first A.B.C. appearance. When the crowd from Kent arrived, the A.B.C. was rumbling through its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Without a Miss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

This archeological find, made at San-el-Hagar on the Nile Delta, was announced early last week by Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg who is excavating the site of ancient Tanis. Unlike many Egyptian tombs which have been despoiled by robbers, this chamber, reached by boring through a heavy wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rarer Than Gold | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

At this point a bearded philosophical angel in a cutaway explains to the audience that the action would look just as logical in reverse. So the music begins to play backwards, the man uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Palindrome Opera | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

This candid author was born in England 59 years ago, ran off to the Boer War in 1899, almost died of enteric fever, met Mark Twain on a boat going to England. Mark Twain medicated the convalescent with Tom & Jerries (rum, hot water, cinnamon, eggs), persuaded him to go to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Here's Your Hat! | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

At precisely 8:25 every morning except Sunday last week, the employes of the First National Bank of Pikeville, Ky. entered the bank through a side door, filed past a chiming cuckoo clock, gathered in the directors' room. There Bookkeeper Mary Clark seated herself at a shiny electric organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Toscanini to Whiteman | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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