Word: tome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the bugle sounded, and similar raids in eight other cities under way, Dies brought up his heavy artillery, released his 413-page, thickly documented "White Paper." It had passages as juicy as any E. Phillips Oppenheim tale. The tome traced in particular the correspondence of mustached Dr. Manfred Zapp, U. S. director of the German Transocean News Service, with German Embassy officials...
...greater vigilance, better plant supervision. Until they could nab an active saboteur, they had to keep their evidence to themselves. Up to last week, they had apparently nabbed none. Not thus inhibited was Martin Dies. Last week he announced that he and his committee had compiled a fat tome on sabotage agents, intimated that shortly he would release it to press and public. It may need fast editing to be up to date. Tin's week, the main building of the American Cyanamid plant at Bridgeville, Pa. was wrecked by an explosion; the tiny plant of Pennsylvania Chemical Corp...
...enlargements through the natural urinary opening. He also designed radical operations for cancer of the prostate, a number of operations to treat hermaphrodites, restore them to their predominant sex. One "girl" whom he turned into a man fell in love with an Institute nurse and married her. His enormous tome Genital Abnormalities, Hennaphroditism and Related Adrenal Diseases is a classic...
Last week appeared the result: Can Christianity Save Civilization? (Harpers; $2). The Religious Book Club snapped it up as its July choice-the sixth time since 1930 that the R. B. C. had picked a Horton tome. Whether or not they accepted Theologian Horton's answer (a determined "Yes"), believers of all creeds-and of none-found his latest book as full of close-knit arguments as a Jonathan Edwards sermon was full of hellfire. U. S. controversialists who wish to argue with Dr. Horton, however, must wait until fall: he is on another jaunt...
...engraving from a sixteenth-century book, a Latin tome on the history of the northern races by a Norse bishop called Olus Magnus, shows fighters on skis driving ski-less pike-men before them. But according to a Runic stone, a cut of which is on display in the exhibit, men of Upsala, Sweden, hunted on skis as early...