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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contracting parties obligate themselves to refrain from every act of force, every aggressive action and every attack against one another, including any single action or that taken in conjunction with other powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Realists Have Taken Over | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Joseph Stalin concluded the Pact for its immediate effect-to be so startling that the world would at once accede to dismemberment of Poland-the bitter laugh was on them. Poland behaved as if nothing had happened. Britain, France got madder if possible. Italy went into her oldtime wobbling act. Japan began slapping Germans in Tientsin. Catholic Spain was outraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Realists Have Taken Over | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...crisis, Englishmen crave an apt quotation from Shakespeare. The London News-Chronicle performed great public service last week by discovering in Hamlet (Act IV Scene 4): "Goes it against the main of Poland, Sir? . . . Yes, it is already garrisoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Is Very Near | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...failed to bring order into the shed, but interstate control by the U.S. Department of Agriculture had ended price-cutting competition from the six outlying States. So last year New York State's dairy farmers held a referendum, voted to subject themselves to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Milk Without Honey | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Nope. Mr. Klein's act would never do. The Hobby Lobby has some 5 million listeners. If even a hundred of them corked off, without Mr. Klein in the living room to wake them up, it could make a mightier stir than the Orson Welles-invoked invasion from Mars. Why, some of the audience might even sleep through the commercial ! No sir! Thanks awfully, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S-L-E-E-P | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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