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Word: accountability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain. Another broadcaster from Berlin last week purported to be the U-boat commander who sank the carrier Courageous, for which feat he was said to have received, besides the Fuhrer's congratulations, the Iron Cross, first class, his crew the Iron Cross, second class. Excerpts from his account of that performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Heroes & Heroics | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...want to see pictures of "girl athletes, snakes, meatballs all wrapped in one" all you have to do is to subscribe (at $6.50 a throw) to the Yale Daily News, which modestly describes itself as a "lively, up-to-the minute account of Yale, Yalemen, and a great deal more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REJUVENATED YALE DAILY SEEKS VASSAR SUBSCRIBERS | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

Included are forty books printed in England before 1640 including the rare English translation of the "Orders given by the Duke de Medina Sidonia to be observed in the voyage towards England"; "The Holy Bull and Crusado of Rome," 1588; and the official account, written for the Lord High Admiral by Petruccio Ubaldini...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Receives Valuable Gift From Thomas W. Lamont '92 | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...fitting eulogy of a glorious ruling House whose power is no more, comes Bertita Harding's Imperial Twilight, a stirring account of the lives of Karl and Zita of Hapsburg. Purposely avoiding more than a bare outline of the historical and political background, the author focuses almost her sole attention on the ill starred war-time rulers, struggling valiantly to hold together a tottering empire, whose collapse the outbreak of that first world conflagration rendered inevitable...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week he popped up again with a novel, Mars in the House of Death, and an account of where he has been all this time. He quit Hollywood because: 1) doctors told him the pace would kill him shortly, 2) he felt he was getting in a rut. Well-heeled (he got about $125,000 a picture, plus 25% of profits), he bought Ciné studios in Nice, decided to travel. Until two years ago, when he settled in Mexico, he had lived in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Spain, Egypt, learned Arabic, got 20 pieces of his own sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romantic's Return | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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