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Word: visional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl. Dipped in yellow paint, the Staters were sent scooting down the steep 50-ft. sides of the "O" to paint it with the seats of their pants. By nightfall the streets of Eugene were strewn with strips of clothing, eleven motorists had been arrested for driving "with obscured vision.'' bruised, bleeding and half-naked Staters were on the road to Corvallis. Crowed President C. Valentine Boyer of the University of Oregon: "Today's outcome is what our visitors could expect after coming over here to crow over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rough Stuff | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Deeply religious, Sculptor Edmondson is far from the bottom of Nashville's Negro society. A hard-working hospital orderly for many years, he owns his own home and a thriving vegetable patch, turned tombstone carver about five years ago because of a vision. To friends last week he explained his conversion: "Dis here stone n' all those out there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mirkels | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...corruption arrayed in a clean-cut warfare with those who are in favor of honest municipal government. The incumbers mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, backed by the Republican, Fusion, and American Labor parties in the city, has managed the affairs of the nation's greatest city with such honesty and vision in the last four years that, although he rode into office on the wave of a reform movement combined with a split in the Democratic ticket, it now appears that the strongest combine of bosses, Far- of the nation, Flynn of the Bronx Democracy, and the Tammany Tiger will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAYORALTY RACE IN THE EMPIRE CITY | 10/27/1937 | See Source »

...only vitamins which the clerk in the grocery and the cook in the kitchen know about are A for clear vision, B for sound nerves, C for healthy muscles and D for sturdy bones. Nutritionists, however, know that there are at least six kinds of vitamin B, eight D's, three H's and a K. Each of these should be assigned a separate letter, according to the nomenclature suggested by Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1911 invented the word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Funny Vitaminologist | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...vision of Shangri-La and the theme "Keep the land!" have become very real things in the hearts of the movie-going public. Those who have seen either of the films know they cannot go wrong on a second visit; those who have seen neither will be pleased to learn that two of the greatest landmarks in screen history may be viewed for the mere crossing of Massachusetts Avenue...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/23/1937 | See Source »

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