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Word: bombards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian fishing grounds with ease but could also send a few of her better war boats around to crush the Soviet toys in the Baltic Sea and bombard the daylights out of Leningrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...consider an abortion, even though she knew the birth would kill her. Young Toni was a ragamuffin who made a few pennies for his grandmother by peddling sights of the stars through his telescope. His great enemy was a crazy old man who thought Toni was threatening to bombard the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor & Patients | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...gets rid of all his Cabinet when they plot against him. When there is a motion in Congress to impeach him, he adjourns Congress, makes himself dictator. Molested by a tycoon gangster, he places his secretary at the head of a corps of Federal police in armored cars. They bombard the gangster's distillery, deliver its occupants to a firing squad. Throughout the picture the invisible presence of the Angel Gabriel is felt no more strongly than that of William Randolph Hearst whose cinema company made the film. President Hammond holds a debt parley on a yacht, gives visiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...using black & white line drawings as heretofore, Artist Disney is now making Silly Symphonies in color. Current release, King Neptune, is a bizarre romance in which a brown boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their mouths like cannon balls; flying fish, improved to resemble airplanes, take off smoothly from the flat spinal cord of a good-humored whale; octopi wave their arms like the propeller-blades of autogiros and silver swordfish saw down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short of the Week | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...Paris, Walter Pach continued to bombard the critics and the Metropolitan from a distance. The Museum accepted its chastening humbly. Several months ago the Metropolitan bought four Pach canvases and invited Artist Pach to lecture there this winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pach Back | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

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