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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighteen months ago, after hundreds of drinks of the radium tonic, he began having pains in his jaw, severe headaches. Dr. Joseph Manning Steiner, Manhattan x-ray specialist who had seen several of the young women poisoned in U.S. Radium Corp.'s factory (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq.'), recognized in Byers' condition symptoms of radium poisoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radium Drinks | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pennsylvania 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-2 Harvard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE GETS OFF TO ADVERSE START IN VACATION GAMES | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...When newspaper stories were handwritten, "x" meant the end of a sentence, "xx" the end of a paragraph, "xxx" (Roman for "30") the end of the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: 30 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...TRAGEDY or X-Barnaby Ross-Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder, Cubed | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

During its seven-year life the Viking Press has never published a detective story. This criminal negligence the editors are enabled to expiate by the discovery of an "almost perfect mystery." The Tragedy of X strikes a happy balance: not perfect enough to render its readers completely insomniac, it has points enough to make them lose at least a minimum desired amount of sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder, Cubed | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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