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Word: weaned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drink. President Portes Gil turned next to Prohibition, the object of his latest enthusiasm. He issued a lengthy document explaining the steps by which he hopes to wean Mexico from the pulque bottle. He created a national committee, with the Secretary of Public Health at its head, to carry these steps out. The steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Peace | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Many more spectators than those sitting and standing in the Stadium will virtually be watching this afternoon's game. The four Boston radio stations: WNAC, WEEI, WBZ, and WBET, and the Sheperd Stores' station at Providence, WEAN, will all have their microphones in action in the press box to allow the radio audience a comprehensive view of the marching cadet spectacle, as well as the game itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE RADIO STATIONS WILL PICTURE TILT FOR LISTENERS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

EDWIN L. CASHMAN Assistant Director, WEAN Providence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Union alone can now provide what would be the purpose of the proposed Dining Hall--a balanced diet, eatening liesure in attractive surroundings. If it is far-sighted enough to secure an inspired dietician such an attractive and varied menu as to wean men from the eating machines in which many reputedly ruin their digestions, it will advance the discussed-ad-nausem cause of a civilized eating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN UNION, STRENGTH | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

With much difficulty the children were "rescued." The youngest soon died in captivity. The other was put in the Rev. Jal Singh's orphanage, where it took months to wean her even slightly from her savage ways. She fiercely tore off the clothes they sewed on her. She bit and clawed when they tried to bathe her. She put her mouth down into her dishes of food, not understanding the use of her hands save as weapons. In time she learned something of their use and acquired a few human words. Weak mentally, she neither laughed nor cried, preferring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wolf Girls | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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