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Word: wheel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commented the Lancet, arch in the midst of bombs: "It is a strange turn of the wheel which has revealed antiseptic properties in the odour of sanctity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Odour of Sanctity | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...60th men's store (largest in the U. S.), set in motion a 26,000-suit assembly line. Same week, in Portland, Ore., Fred Meyer opened his tenth "unit" (which sells everything from groceries to Opening" that included cake-baking contests, daily vaudville, dog shows, a Ferris wheel, a free suckling pig, and eight performing lions, Merchandiser Meyer attracted 100,000 visitors in six days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Down the Stretch | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...fringes of the mountains. Sapphira's widowed daughter, an abolitionist at heart, does good among the mountaineers and the slaves. Sapphira's husband, another, spends most of his time at the mill, earnestly reads Bunyan's Holy War. Sapphira herself manages the household from her wheel chair (she has dropsy), yearns for the good life in Winchester. Mainly the story is of her more & more elaborate persecution of the young mulatto Nancy, whom she wrongly suspects of bedding with her husband. At her lowest she invites her rakehell nephew Martin for a visit, assigns him Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-War Tale | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...collapsible marionette theatre is under construction by Joseph R. Passonneau '42, while Eugene S. Austin '42 is experimenting with a lighted metal mural for an airport. A potter's wheel has been built for experimenting in ceramics. The sixteen students enrolled in the advanced 2b course, now in its first year of existence, are also creating "interpretations" in wood and tin, drawing and painting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREATIVE INTERESTS STRESSED OVER EXAMS, LECTURES IN UNIQUE COURSE | 12/5/1940 | See Source »

...Panorama of Treasure Hunting is his sixth book on buried ingots and briny chests, prehistoric cities along the feverish Amazon and gold dust combed from the pelts of Klondike grizzlies. Many treasures are hunted, few are found. But their seekers are slaves to the quest as gamblers to the wheel, hopheads to the needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hordes After Hoards | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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