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Word: bursting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year history. A young General named Chiang Kaishek, though still hardly more than an ambitious warlord, was beginning to make his people realize that yellow skin was not necessarily synonymous with low estate. The Russians, to promote world revolution, were also urging a China for Chinese. The country burst into fire from within, like a haystack with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bare Fist, Gloved Fist | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...afternoon last week Donald Campbell, young Edinburgh University Latin Lecturer, and his wife, returning from a Paris honeymoon, stepped up to the check room in London's crowded King's Cross Station. From beneath the counter came an explosion that destroyed the check room, burst suitcases and trunks, bowled over scores of passersby, stripped the clothes from two women. As the clouds of choking, acrid smoke rolled away Donald Campbell, both legs blown off, lay dying. Sprawled around him, 15 wounded men and women, including his bride, fed the bloody pools gathering on the cobblestones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Irish War | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...voiced choir and the Georgia State Girls' Military Band burst into Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow. A huge throng of Atlantans, ringing Terminal Station Plaza, cheered and handclapped as a white-haired man, large of frame, square of face, firm of jaw, stepped from the station. Atlanta's Mayor William Berry Hartsfield, a representative of Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, Baptist ministers white and black greeted him-Rev. Dr. George Washington Truett, best-known Baptist in the world. He had arrived in Atlanta last week to preside over the sixth congress of the Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Messengers in Atlanta | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...policeman burst Ferguson's door. He was in his bathroom. The tub was full, and in it was Lizzie Schneider. Ferguson was holding her under, drowning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Handy Man | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...shot up to a polyglot giant of 149,473 inhabitants, a challenger of New York's financial might, a cultural threat to Boston. That year San Francisco went on a three-day spree. Officially it celebrated completion of the transcontinental railroad-"Uncle Sam's Waistband-He would burst without it." Historically it celebrated the end of a unique frontier society, an equally unique frontier literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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