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Word: remnants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco's northern army pecked gingerly at the remnant of Asturian militiamen still holding out at Gijón on the Bay of Biscay last week, otherwise Spain was as quiet as the tomb it is rapidly becoming. From Madrid there was no word, on the Aragon front both sides seemed exhausted after the Leftist capture of Belchite. The war was going on, but the real scene of action had switched to a small sedate town on the shore of Lake Geneva-Nyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Nine to Nyon | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...remnant of the 5,000 Chinese de fenders of Nankow Pass had fled south west to Shansi Province, joined a formi dable, well-equipped Chinese army there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Belated Push | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...neck is broken. In both cases the spinal cord is injured. If you lift his head to give him a drink of water or if you fold him up to carry him, you inevitably grind the injured spinal cord between parts of the broken vertebrae and destroy any useful remnant of the cord which may have escaped injury in the original accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First Aid to Spines | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...getting dizzy as the plane dived toward normal air, suddenly realized that not enough oxygen was flowing into his air-tight suit, that he was about to suffocate. Frantically he tried to open the zipper of his suit and the window of his plane. Failing, he used the last remnant of his strength to snatch a knife from the wall, slit open his helmet, gulp the air that rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ferdie's Flight | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...maintains a blind and stubborn skepticism under all circumstances gets nowhere. He states that he has never encountered scientific proof of the survival of the "soul, ego or personality" after death, but that occasionally an extraordinary medium seems to get in touch with a sort of dissociated psychic remnant of the deceased. For example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghost-Hunter | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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