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Word: wakeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ride to the Book of Psalms. In the two years the program has been on the air, Grogan has turned down only one recording because he felt it might be over his audience's heads. He found a record of James Joyce reading a portion of Finnegans Wake "a little bit difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: So They Say | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Chicken or Egg? Rheumatic patients carry in themselves the cure as well as the cause of the disease, say Mayo's Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall. The problem: how to wake up the dormant curative powers in the body. Drs. Hench and Kendall have succeeded in doing it dramatically but temporarily with two hormones: cortisone, originally called compound E,* and ACTH (TIME, May 2). But they were cautious in their report, warned that the hormones are still extremely scarce and that it is too early to tell how safe the long treatment will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aching Joints | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime cine-mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 43, Australian-born Hollywood writer-director (Wake Island, The Big Clock): their sixth child, third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephanie Margarita. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...mere 240 per hour by vigorous adjustment. But Michael had hardly left the chiropractor's office before the sneeze rate soared again. Hypnotist Norman Waters sent Michael into a deep trance and intoned: "You are not going to sneeze. When I snap my fingers you will wake up and tell your mother, 'I have stopped sneezing.' " Waters snapped his fingers and Michael woke with a violent kerchoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Record for Britain | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Rickenbacker captain of the varsity golf team, slept through the first round of the 16-man individual championships after a telegraph operator had allegedly failed to wake him at 7 a.m. Saturday. Late Friday night, he said, he had asked Western Union to phone him in the morning, in accordance with the Company's regular awakening service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill Rickenbacker Sleeps During NE Golf Individuals | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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