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Word: williamses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To physicians 40 years ago, the living brain was a jungle of tangled nerve fibres, a mass of corrugated grey tissue. A few brave men dared to perform brain operations, but most of their patients died. In 1905 young Surgeon Harvey Williams Cushing penetrated this wilderness, and in 28 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: BRAINMAN | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

And graduate the fish! --Eva Williams Raymond in the Boston Herald.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

Years ago-30 anyway and perhaps 40-a bill was introduced in Congress providing that our country be known henceforth as "Usona," short for United States of North America [TIME, March 13 et seq.]. Whereupon John Sharp Williams of Mississippi moved as a substitute that instead of "Usona" the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Last week Bombster Bush did it again. This time he rented Albert Hall (capacity 12,000), and launched a three-day Festival of Music for the People. Main feature: a massive pageant depicting the story of "the people in their struggle forward out of subjection." In it danced, acted, sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bombster | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

The inside track to a job in the Metropolitan Opera Company used to turn on an Italianized name and recognized vocal experience, usually in Milan. The modern and more democratic way of crashing grand opera is via the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air, a competition sponsored each winter since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Winners | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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