Word: magically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magic act with two magicians, and an act which offers the combined efforts of a fumbler, jugglers, and an unicyclist may well be the high points of the show...
GALLYBIRD - Sheila Kaye-Smith - Harper ($2.50). Tale of 17th Century England, complete with black magic; sequel to The End of the House of Alard and Superstition Corner...
...malaria deafened one ear and nearly killed him. He came home to write a book about tiger hunting, Sport and Travel in the Far East, passionately resolved not to go into Boston banking. For a scion of the aloof Grews the only way to live in the places with magic names was to enter the Foreign Service. "When I flunked my first examination," Joe Grew has said, "I nearly committed suicide...
Sirs: . . . Finally TIME has performed the neatest bit of magic to date-it has converted gliding and soaring into Transport, of all things [TIME, Oct. 8]. Poor impractical me, I had always had the benighted notion that motorless flying was just pure useless sport. I'm glad TIME put me right, though. Now I won't have to wait any longer for the $700 airplane; I'll just get myself a sailplane and soar out to see the world. . . . ROBERT B. RENFRO...
Primitive people from time immemorial have eaten the hearts, livers and testicles of ferocious beasts and valorous enemies. Believers in sympathetic magic, they sought thus to acquire strength and bravery. Scientific minds saw no sense to this until about 75 years ago Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817-94) concluded that such a diet somehow made men of weaklings. He sought the reason and found a testicular secretion which in infinitesimal amounts did what the whole gland could do. That potent quintessence came to be called a hormone. Other glands in the body were soon found to produce secretions...