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Word: ticklers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably ought to come from one Greater New York station. . . . Doesn't this kind of programming cost us jack we'll never get? You should hear what our treasurer says! If he got real nasty you know what we'd do? We'd blow a tickler in his face, that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: QRX | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Hyman tickler imitates the action of the heart's "pacemaker." The pacemaker is a spot in the wall of the heart's right auricle. Here originates the stimulus which excites the normal heart to beat about 70 times a minute. Dr. Hyman's investigations told him that the stimulus is an electric current generated by the pacemaker. Ingeniously he measured that current, found it about one-thousandth of one volt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heart Tickler | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...fanfare of pressagentry saluted the sailing of a Dr. Paul Gillet of Paris* for Manhattan last week. Dr. Gillet is a nose-tickler, one who claims to cure all manner of ailments by touching a nasal nerve with a stylet and simultaneously gazing steadily into the patient's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nose-Tickler | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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