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Word: admittede (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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An amiable war horse of British political life, the sort of indulgent after-dinner speaker who keeps a card index of good jokes, stuffs his pockets with them when he goes to a banquet, Lord Macmillan was a youthful prodigy at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to the Scottish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fact & Fiction | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

In the War's first five days, hundreds of Nazi bombing planes dumped ton after ton of explosive on every city of any importance the length & breadth of Poland. They aimed at air bases, fortifications, bridges, railroad lines and stations, but in the process they killed upward of 1,500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

The handsome Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, described as a $35,000,000 exhibit-destined at Fair's end to become an airplane hangar-proved that the Exposition's officials were wrong about human nature. For six months the art gallery (admission 25?-children 10?) never grossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

After the crash, an "earless man" peered over the brim of a nearby gully, fled when hailed. Police rounded up suspicious characters, trapped one ''earless man" who admitted hating railroads but who had an alibi. The search went on, also, for a sot who cursed the railroads in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: In Humboldt Canyon | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

In Science, he concluded that the reason for the gullibility of U. S. university graduates is that U. S. universities teach science atrociously. He proceeded to flay his fellow science teachers for trying to cram their dogmatic opinions down students' throats, giving them no notion of what Science has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spinsters and Australia | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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