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Word: browsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Council reacted with rare League courage, upheld Mr. Lester and rebuffed Herr Greiser, he beetled his brows, thrust out his Nazi chin and roared: "Not only in the name of the people of Danzig, but in the name of all the German people I formulate this proposal: The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Kicked While Down | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Wrote the Saturday Evening Post of Senator Harrison in 1923: "He is the official sniper and sharpshooter of the Democratic side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxmaster | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Politely last week the Rt. Hon. Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy resigned from the British Cabinet. Reason: He had nothing to do. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin regretfully accepted the resignation. The bluest of blood and the highest of brows has Lord Eustace Percy. The seventh son of the seventh Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Useless Eustace | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Cunard White Star officials, mopping their brows with relief, called attention to the happy fact that in the few minutes that her engines raced full speed astern they had felt none of the vibration that has been the curse of the French Line's Normandie. Chief Engineer Llewellyn Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Queen To Sea | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Like most successful writers, Author Stern likes and approves her successful fellows, contemns her somehow threatening colleagues whose brows are higher: "I would give you the Hundred Most Massive Highbrow Living Writers, the kind who creak and heave as they thrust their shoulders at the wheel, like figures in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King Charles's Head | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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