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Word: tracts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goring, who was very fat when captured, had evidently first secreted the two-inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Epilogue | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Bright Prospects. But there was no particular hurry. On a 160-acre tract of deep country near Oakland, Calif., O'Neill and his wife spent their first years of liberty designing and building a big house as beautiful as their prospects. They christened it Tao House. * In 1935, O'Neill began to block out his massive cycle of plays. Every day he worked from about 8 in the morning until about 1 :30, writing as a rule quite freely and surely, in his elegant, complex, microscopic hand. Carlotta, often with the help of a magnifying glass, typed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Ordeal of Eugene O'Neill | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...Streptomycin is by far the best therapeutic agent available for... this disease " Urinary Tract Infections (kidneys and bladder). Of 409 patients, some of whom had been ill for 20 years, streptomycin cured 171, improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Streptomycin Wonders | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...central headquarters, Witnesses methodically divided the city into 11,773 four-block sectors. Then, like locusts, they swarmed out, haranguing pedestrians, charging up doorsteps with portable phonographs (message: let Roman Catholics change their ways), hawking the limitless output of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Glad Assembly | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Diseases now being treated with the drug include: typhoid, food poisoning, undulant fever and rabbit fever; certain infections of the genitourinary tract; some types of blood poisoning, meningitis, pneumonia and bacterial endocarditis. Limited research is being conducted in tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Report on Streptomycin | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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