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Word: wombs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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there will burst forth from the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: HYMNS FROM THE DEAD SEA | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...housing debt, the consumers' total unpaid balance in mid-1956 represented $800 for every man. woman and child in the U.S., v. $180 in 1939. From go-now, pay-later trips abroad to fill-your-teeth-on-time plans, installment buying now covers almost every contingency from womb to tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Banker's Banker | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...womb ! Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Average Brute | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Across the Golf Links. The first thing to clear up in Richard's life is his behavior before he entered it. According to various Tudors, Richard spent a cagey two years in his mother's womb, waiting for the appearance of "a hostile star'' that would make him a proper "Antichrist." When at last he made his delayed entry (in 1452), he did so feet foremost, with a set of teeth, and black hair flowing down to his deformed shoulders. On his face was a "malicious, wrathful, envious" expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Average Brute | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Strict functionalism was a necessary purgative," he says, "but after all, there is nothing esthetic about an WOMB CHAIR) enema." Agreeing that modern architecture has won the day, he says: "Now is the time to examine the presuppositions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Maturing Modern | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

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