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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newest Soviet word to be endowed with pointed meaning is "culture." To attain such "culture," Russian comrades are now strongly urged by their Dictator to become neater in dress, mind and habits. Last week a prominent Soviet journalist who had just been received in the Kremlin told one of the few off-the-record stories about Stalin to get by the censor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Button Culture | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...should like to be classed with them," replied Dr. Townsend blandly. "I hope to attain that place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Messiah on the March | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Then cried the first Jew ever slated to attain that office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bodards & Bogeys | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Landon has shrewdly avoided offering specific answers to national problems. His rare speeches to date have been to the effect that it would be nice to attain many New Deal goals without New Deal spending and experiment. "No reasonable citizen should ask us what to do," cried he in his second broadside at the New Deal last winter. "The American people propose to solve their problems under the American system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Kansas Candidate | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Biologist's Bug | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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