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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conrad Beissel emigrated to Pennsylvania, gathered about him a small sect called Seventh Day Baptists. At Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pa., he built a big three-story cloister which he named "The Sharon." Into this cloister with his male & female followers he retired to pursue the spiritual ideal of the "Woman of the Wilderness." Changing his name to Father Friedsam "The Peaceful," Beissel was the first prior of the Ephrata Community.* He was followed by big Peter Miller, called "Jabez." The community grew to 300. After the Battle of Brandywine nearby, 500 wounded Continentals were nursed in the cloister by white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baby Lama | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...girl of 18, a woman of 35 and a man of 46 all have appendicitis. Which are most likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...blood test. This test is the issue of the blood classifications which Dr. Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute discovered when he was a young researcher in Vienna 30 years ago. There are four main classes of human blood (O, A, B and AB). If, for example, a woman whose blood was of type A had a child by a man of type A, the child's blood would be type A or O and could not be type B or AB. This meant, reasoned the Brooklyn blood expert, that the Landsteiner blood groups can show only that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Judgment by Blood | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Next day no one took much notice when a quiet, middle-aged woman arrived on the Europa, calmly saw her luggage through customs and sped out to the Steinway factory to choose her own pianos for a cross-country tour starting this week in Hartford. She was Myra Hess who does not go in for publicizing herself like most musicians. She does not assume that anyone is interested in the fact that she grew up in an orthodox Jewish home in London, started playing the piano when she was five, stuck to it because for her there seemed no other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Week's Cargo | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...stride and strength of a man. Her Brahms and Schumann are expertly tender. Evidence of Hess's powers are the houses she draws. During Depression when most audiences have dwindled hers have steadily increased until today she is rated not only as the world's greatest woman pianist, but as one of the world's few great musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Week's Cargo | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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