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Word: returns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Next morning another colleague began to tickle Dr. Head's hand with cotton wool, fine hairs, hot and cold needles. He marked out the areas insensitive to pain and touch, took full notes on Dr. Head's sensations. It took several years for all feeling to return, but the arm healed perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nerves and Pain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...Bessarabia, the Russian commented that it "has always been part of Russia and was taken away when we were weak. We asked for its return and a satisfactory agreement was made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSIAN GIVES LIFE TO SOCIALISM, PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO STALIN | 10/18/1940 | See Source »

Cornelius V. Starr, owner, and Randall Gould, editor, have been ordered out of the country by the puppet regime. Neither paid any attention. Gould is still at his post; Starr stayed four months, came home when he got ready, plans to return soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where U.S. newsmen block the road of Japanese ambition | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...Productions is merely trying to give Boston a better than average taste of amateur theatricals, they're doing a first rate job. But if they seriously consider themselves a testing ground for plays of Broadway calibre, they're very definitely nestling in the wrong pew. Their offering this week, "Return Engagement," looks like a very bad combination of "Stage Door" and "Charley's Aunt." The title of the play shows at least a sense of humor on the part of the author--it very definitely is a return engagement of something you've seen innumerable times before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

...union of a vapid play and a cast that, with one marked exception, runs the entire gamut from indifferent to very bad is an unfortunate one. If "Boyd's Shop," the Copley's first play this season, lasted only two nights on Broadway, "Return Engagement" had better prepare to go to bed right here in Beantown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

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