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Word: overeating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the first four days she was given six large blood transfusions (the last three of blood serum alone), as well as moderate injections of salt and sugar water. In nine days she was out of danger; in two months, neatly patched with skin grafts, she was "completely healed." The...

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

¶ In a great number of cases, paralyzed muscles can be toned up if they are gently coaxed into action as soon as the acute stage of the disease has passed (usually four or five weeks after first symptoms). Most popular form of exercise is warm water swimming, skillfully taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pamphlet | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

"Men! Are you skinny, tired, nervous, rundown? Try a bottle of sarsaparilla and watch those muscles grow." That is the sort of thing famed Hormone-Maker Russell Earl Marker of Penn State expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sarsaparilla Caution | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

But the studio engineers kept talking to him over the hookup (a telephone line from Montevideo to Buenos Aires, short-wave radio to New York), just as reporters covering important stories used to file the Bible over the wire between developments to keep control of their telegraph connections. At 5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Network programs going over 175 stations were cut off; programs on the NBC international short-wave stations (WNBI and WRCA) were silenced. Then Jimmy's voice, without a splutter or a wasted word, told the world: "We have just seen the Graf Spee explode five miles off the coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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