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Word: throughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day in the House of Commons Laborite John Morgan rose up to ask how many men the Ministry employed. Tall, baldish Sir Edward Grigg, appointed that morning to represent the Ministry in Parliament, answered for the Government: there were 872 in London, 127 provincial employes. A gusty Whew! swept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

For maximum surgical success, hundreds of delicate precautions must be observed. A surgeon should make incisions with "a deliberate sweep of the scalpel." but "the belly of the scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gentle Science | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

"Picture in your mind's ear the mayhem that a lusty soprano of the oldtime concert stage can commit on that poignant last line of Kiss Me Again. You may think she has screamed as loudly as human lungs can manage all the way through the chorus, but you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Croon | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Alternately the market went to pieces on headlines about 1) peace, and 2) Congressional embargoes remaining in force; went through the roof on headlines about i) long war, and 2) Congressional repeal of the arms embargo. But the net result of all this switching back & forth between war & peace got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Month at the Races | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

To succeed Great Northern's late William P. Kenney, directors picked big, brusque, likable Frank James Gavin (58), who joined the road as an office-boy 42 years ago, worked his way up through station agent, division supt., etc., became a rock-ribbed "24-hour railroad man." A brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: 1037 & 1030 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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