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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As for the literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

They sing plenty: lyric bits from such Herbert operettas as Naughty Marietta, Mile Modiste, Princess Pat; Herbertian fragments on streets, in a carriage, at dinner table, in a Fifth Avenue mansion shaded by a big eucalyptus tree. They run through eight songs in a brief bicycle ride among the mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The consequences of marriage are almost too much for everybody in the Lemp sisterhood. The clinical situation at a glance: Sister No. 1 expects a baby, visits her doctor to learn that she never can have one. Sister No. 2 deduces therefrom that she is in the same predicament, adopts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

When the story resumes, Clisson and Eugénie have a family, are quarreling operatically because Eugénie is jealous. Climax comes when Clisson, heading a victorious army, learns he succeeded too well when he dispatched a handsome young officer to comfort Eugénie. "Adieu," he writes in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Novelist | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The Civil Aeronautics Authority's flying course at Harvard was a fine idea, and everybody realized, it, including the one hundred and forty students who sought the original fifty vacancies this fall. But thus, far there has been so much red tape and so many delays while the local authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING LOW | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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