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Word: winter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, according to reports from India, Tibet still lacked living gods, was becoming increasingly embarrassed at having in its midst one god who was extremely dead. From Jyekundo, where the Panchen Lama died, a retinue of 1,000 lamas, Chinese soldiers and relations of the Buddha set out last winter to take his body to Lhasa, to bury it with proper ritual. Unable or unwilling to embalm it, they wrapped it, in a sitting position, in cloths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unburied Buddha | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...last resort of horse & buggy days will remember last week's Hambletonian as the one with the best weather. But to seasoned trotting men, the story of Lawrence Sheppard's master stroke of horse trading will serve as a subject of discussion for many a dull winter evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Goshen | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural oils is difficult and expensive, but last winter Chemist Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized it from coal tar. Dr. Evans promptly fed alpha tocopherol to sterile rats, and this week he told the International Physiological Congress at Zurich, Switzerland, that all 200 of the rats gave birth to average-sized litters. Synthetic Vitamin E is just as strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin News | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

While the U. S. was thus expecting, if not enjoying, a continued revival of business, European businessmen were wondering how long their duress would continue. Great question in Europe last winter was whether the U. S. would pull Europe into the economic morass (TIME, Feb. 28). It did. Question now is whether the U. S. will pull Europe out again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Jolts & Expectations | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Last winter a free-lance deep-sea diver and experimenter named Max Nohl had himself lowered 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan, thus making the world's deepest dive to date in a diving suit (TIME, Dec. 13).* In so doing, Max Nohl conclusively showed the value of a helium-oxygen mixture for deep diving. Helium is a light gas, requires little effort to inhale. It also seems to forestall that bugbear of divers, "the bends" (gas bubbles in the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Artificial Dive | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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