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Word: agains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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His New York chums waged war. At a Manhattan County committee meeting of the party, a divisional director of Mr. Quill's union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Red Lights Out | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Twenty years ago the Women's Christian Temperance Union and their fellow fighters had the satisfaction of seeing the U. S., preoccupied with the effects of World War I, vote liquor out. Liquor came in again almost 15 years later, but the W.C.T.U. was only momentarily daunted. Meeting in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Mumps, Hops | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

>The cotton that had once been called the king of a kingless country, and which like a dethroned monarch of agriculture forever conspired to rule again grew in its inexhaustible luxuriance-over the eight States south of the Ohio and the James; east of the shallow, wandering Brazos that flows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

It was his "inner sympathy" with the British, he indicated, and his "respect" for the "great achievements of the French nation" that caused Herr Hitler throbbingly to ask: "Why should this war in the west be fought? . . . "Continuation of the present state of affairs in the West is unthinkable. Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

"Even then there was a worldwide feeling that a great revolution in human affairs was imminent; the phrase 'A war to end war' expressed that widely diffused feeling, and surely there could be no profounder break with human tradition and existing forms of government than that. But that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planless Peace | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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