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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Now solidly repatriated after 35 years in China, Pearl Buck lives with her second husband and publisher, Richard John Walsh, on a 130-acre farm in Bucks County, Pa. She divides her great energies between tending nine children (one of her own, her husband's three, their adopted five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sino-Japanese Romance | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

"We have not replied with vehement words to the demands that have been violently expressed [in Italy]. France is too great a country, too calm and too strong to permit herself to be disturbed by insults and threats. Insults! They do not hurt. Threats! France is strong enough to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: On to Paris! | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

There, on an acre of soil-tested land apiece, 60 modern houses will be built-a two-bedroom size at $4,500, three-bedroom at $5,300. Total cost for the 60 families will be $300,000, financed jointly by the workers, Armco and FHA. To keep costs down, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Steel Homesteads | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

With an estimated shortage of 2,000 houses in and around the Clairtown area, the building firm of Gilbert-Varker, Inc. persuaded Big Steel to cooperate in erecting a 300-house, 92-acre subdivision known as Colonial Village. FHA got behind 80% of the project's $1,314,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Steel Homesteads | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Five Men | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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