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Word: towards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chen's 200,000 troops could now turn west-and south toward the Yangtze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHINA: Province for a Poet | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...think that men edit women's magazines very well," says blue-eyed Bruce Gould. "They always take a superior attitude toward women." But as long as Beatrice is around on the Journal, there is no danger of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies' Choice | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Toward the very end, the nature of the miracle is revealed. It turns out to have been a talking horse with a very beautiful and exalted message for the townspeople. The audience neither hears the horse nor sees him; for them, there is only an intense white light above his stall. The horse dies at the end of the play. The play, a kind of Passing of the Third Feedbox Back, died at the end of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Four of a Kind | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

According to students of the subject, there are three kinds of painkiller. Some deaden tissue locally. When the dentist shoots procaine, for instance, into gums, it painproofs that area only and keeps it from flashing pain messages toward the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeling No Pain | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...opiates can change the patient's attitude toward his pain. People under the influence of such drugs often say: "I still feel my pain but I don't seem to care." This means that the drug has affected not only the pain-bringing nerves, but in some subtler manner the conscious mind itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeling No Pain | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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