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Word: waterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Bobbsey Twins. In Hollywood, mentioning Kinsey was one of the few ways to break up a gin rummy game. Radio comedians, ever on the alert against censorship, tested the water with such gags as: "He's at the awkward age-you know, too old for the Bobbsey Twins and too young for the Kinsey report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: How to Stop Gin Rummy | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Mesmer's method was to fill tubs with "magnetized water" (iron filings and pieces of glass). Hopeful sufferers sat around the tubs clutching at protruding iron rods while harmoniums, pianos and musical glasses tinkled and Mesmer and assistants in purple silk coats hovered about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Svengali Influence | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...this might suggest the existence of life. But astronomers have had no evidence that the Martian atmosphere contains the gases (carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen) which are necessary for life as we know it. The necessary water might be lacking too. The "icecaps" might not be frozen water but "dry ice": solid carbon dioxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Far-Away Lichens | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Water & Greenery. Last week, Kuiper focused his spectrometer on the gleaming icecap, dwindling fast in the Martian May. It turned out to be "water in the solid state" (ice, snow or hoarfrost). If it had been solid carbon dioxide (dry ice), it would have shown an entirely different spectrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Far-Away Lichens | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Loeffler's first concern on seeing the room was whether his law notes were safe. They were found intact in a water-soaked, scorelied desk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $1000 Fire Ravages Suite of Three Students in Law School Dormitory | 2/24/1948 | See Source »

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