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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...use of doormats marked "Unwelcome." 3) The wearing of dark glasses on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...dangers-dirt, disease, theft, vandalism, immorality and strife!" But Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot last week announced that Britain's countryfolk had already offered keep and shelter for more than 1,000,000 city children and their mothers, left no doubt that the Government would use compulsion if necessary to make every country dweller do his share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peekaboo | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...tomb, which stands in the largest of the three Institute buildings, moves a crowd of busy scientists who are so passionately devoted to Pasteur's ideals of free criticism and painstaking experiment that his lifetime has really been projected into the future. Many of his successors still use his old furniture, work with his old instruments. And janitor of the Institute is old Joseph Meister. "I shall see always Pasteur's good face focused on me," he tells Institute visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pasteur's Pride | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...rebuke" and "abuse." Among merged words now in common use are flabbergast (flabby & aghast) and chortle (chuckle & snort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mergers | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...dentists practicing in the Square, where rates are considerably higher. And this condition was by no means out of the ordinary; today no more appointments for fillings are available until June. Members of the staff estimate that several more dentists and doubled floor space could be put to full use if provided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DENTAL DILEMMA | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

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