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Word: lost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingstree, S. C., Farmer H. R. Morris found a lost cow which had swished its tail around a tree, knotted itself fast, slowly starved to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Already in this war, said M. Giraudoux, more British sailors and French soldiers have been lost than in those "battles to save the world- Thermopylae and Valmy."* Moreover, "even if it means boring the world to tears," the Allies are not going to bother about giving a "performance packed with box-office appeal for the reading and listening audiences. . . . Our Army is intact and ready, but fighting as we are for the principles of life against the principles of death, we would be contradicting ourselves if we sacrificed a single man to the pageantry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: No Box Office | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...office and in an emotional, sometimes tearful scene, pleaded with him to keep Cukor. Being smart women as well as capable actresses, they realized that the chances of getting another director with the same peculiar interest in women's roles were very slim. But they were fighting a lost cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Georgian, it was way behind. With a circulation of only 75,178, and such local advertising crumbs as the Journal and the Constitution dropped from their table, rumor said the Georgian had lost around $200,000 a year. Ably edited, it was blighted by a succession of Hearst experts from the North who could not understand the South's temper. Sale of the Georgian leaves Hearst's depleted empire with 17 newspapers, only one (the San Antonio Light) in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Deal in Georgia | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...escapes from the capillaries into tissue spaces, and circulation "dries up," stagnates. So the doctors followed their textbook schedule by feeding and injecting the baby with enormous quantities of water and fruit juices. For two days she was quiet and fairly comfortable; on the third day she swelled up, lost consciousness, went into convulsions, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Water | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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