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Word: agains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Kawamoto went to Shanghai for consultations, returned, begged the Marshal importunately. Firm as the Great Wall, Wu Pei-fu again refused.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buddha's Verdict | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

"We again went out into the blackness. After a few minutes the shadowy form of a Moroccan slipped up to the captain and made a rapid report in Arabic." His patrol had grenaded a German patrol. About midnight a rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Convoys can go no faster than their slowest members. Mr. Churchill said that the system has now been speeded by instituting "slow" and "fast" convoys, so that wallowing tramps do not hold up the parade.* He pointed out that while losses of British merchant shipping declined in October to half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Churchill v. Chain Belt | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

"Jack be nimble, Jack be quick; Jack jump over this here stick!" shouted the drunken father, who had sold the family Furniture to buy liquor. While mother and sister wept to see such sport, the tearful little sprout jumped over a broom handle, again & again until he fell exhausted. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop v. Drink | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The Shakespeare open season for 1939-40 started last week* when Maurice Evans reopened on Broadway in his last season's hit, an uncut Hamlet. It proved once again a much more tumultuous and exciting play than the usual cut version. Interesting minor change: This season Polonius wears spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Bard and the Box Office | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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