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Word: armed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shuddering minority as the most offensive broadcaster on the air. To his enormous radio following, principally in rural regions, he is a comforter of rare understanding who drops in for a friendly chat. To his critics he is an intruder who slithers out of the loudspeaker, puts his arm across his listener's shoulder and assures him that "all is well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Scrapbookman | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

With 500 cold and sluggish bumble bees in a hive tucked under his arm, Michael W. Barrett walked into Boston's Hotel Statler one day last week. That afternoon he was to tell the New England Nurserymen's Association about beekeeping. In the cloakroom he checked his beehive. Miss May Hassey looked at Miss Dorothy Stayton and giggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Beatty & the Beast | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...glance the French proposal to arm the League of Nations seems like an attempt to preclude the possibility of success at the Geneva Arms Conference. From its experience at other conferences, the world has learned to be wary of French diplomacy. And it is perfectly plausible to conjecture that France, knowing that the other nations will reject the plan, is merely providing for a cogent excuse to refuse any limitations of arms. The general protest with which the plan has been received is, therefore, not surprising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRENCH PROPOSITION | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...seem to have missed entirely is not the dispute itself but the methods which Japan has adopted to settle the issue. There is overwhelming evidence that Japan has made no honest effort to exhaust all possible peaceable means of settlement; that she has deliberately chosen the old-fashioned strong-arm method; that in doing so she has violated (in spirit, if not in letter) her international obligations. On these matters there is a peculiar unanimity of agreement. Now the issue up to us and the rest of the world is just this: "Can we afford to let any nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bronx Cheers | 2/4/1932 | See Source »

...school friends. In Stockholm's singing academy she learned German (she calls it Yarman) and the German operas. She acquired superstitions. The right foot must come out of bed first in the morning, the right stocking go on first. If a costume is so designed that the left arm must go in first, even today the great Ljungberg spits

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

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