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Word: weapon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubly damned. The only possible way out it to move fast in Cuba and restrain the government down there. This is a task which would be rendered infinitely easier by the recognition of the existing government and the complete abandonment of the Stimson Doctrine as a diplomatic weapon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

Mussolini used Liberalism as a tool to destroy the existing order, then he threw it aside. The same was true of Lenin and Hitler Liberalism is simply a weapon, in the present American crisis, for the purpose of destroying the ideals and institutions that have made us the best, most advanced and happiest nation in the world. If we are to survive, so-called Liberalism must be replaced by our time-worn methods that have stood the test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...week. Like a similar ordinance of Newark (only other of its kind which Englewood knows of), it requires that every domestic servant in Englewood possess a certificate of health. Said Englewood's Health Director Irwin: "This will serve to keep out undesirables and it gives every employer a weapon which he should have. Domestics are in the same class with food-handlers, barbers and beauty parlor operators, all of whom must undergo the same examinations to prove themselves free from communicable disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Certified Servants | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...Nagel's pet aversious are sweetened corn bread and night clubs. His pet diversions are ping-pong and bicycling. Being very finicky about his table-tennis racquets, Nagel has imported an extra-large weapon from Germany. For the rest of his exercise, since he left his bicycle in the West, he finds it necessary to resort to ambulation. He usually walks from ten to fifteen miles a day. It was while walking around Central Park that he memorized the lines for the show in which he is now playing. "Being a timid young man," said Nagel. "I avoided the inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conrad Nagel Compares Film Actresses to Meat Finds Bogey Men and Thugs too Active in Park | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

...becomes Vitamin A, hence has been dubbed "primary Vitamin A." Scientists agree that Vitamin A is essential to growth. Because an experimental animal deprived of it is susceptible to infection, some wishful-thinking investigators have assumed that Vitamin A is also "anti-infective," have cried it up as a weapon against respiratory infections. Experiments have by no means substan tiated their claims. Researchers in Manhattan lately reported that children dosed with Vitamin A (in fish liver oils) and "primary Vitamin A" had proven no more resistant to respiratory infections than a "control" group which went without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coughdrops Flayed | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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