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Word: answerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Marshall's army last week passed its 150th birthday, despite its feuding civilians marched right on with Rearmament. *Asked whether he supplied this piece of ammunition to his friend Mr. Woodring, Columnist-Commentator Boake Carter said: "The safest answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Scandalous Spats | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Chinese answer to this drive was a surprise attack on the flimsy Japanese garrison which has patrolled the 22-mile strip of land adjacent to Hong Kong since a landing party seized it in mid-August. The attack had a temporary success, but it was only a diversion. Furthermore, it was a diversion which (along with the news that Britain was removing five gunboats from China waters because of "more pressing needs" elsewhere) only served to remind the Japanese that right now might be a sweet time to take Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Chinese Corridor | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...chance that any time within the next two years Congress might want many more merchantmen than the U. S. now has, particularly merchantmen convertible into aircraft carriers and other handy things to have around in an emergency, Chairman-Admiral Land meant to have ships on hand. His answer to last week's shipbuilding jitters: to shovel out orders for seven ships more to the overworked yards which are currently building merchantmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Ships-- for What? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...misleading propaganda, why not study the nature of war itself? What conditions are necessary to cause this phenomenon which makes men kill their own kind? Perhaps it only requires a single man to bring about such a catastrophe; perhaps factors over which humans have no control are involved. The answer to this question alone should go far toward helping him decide between intervention and isolation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

Undoubtedly with an answer to these questions, the Vagabond will be better equipped to decide present issues. And that is why he is going to Emerson 211 at nine o'clock tomorrow morning to hear Professor Sorokin lecture on the "Sociology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

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