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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain and France had just reduced their China garrisons. Japan was fulminating against the U. S. in its role of watchdog. The conferees went off to Manila with their boss's judgment (coinciding with their own): if Japan takes the present war as an occasion to move in on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

As in the last war, most of the sweep volunteers were fishermen, whose hard-boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Quiet But Fierce | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Just after World War II broke, several socialite groups sought the patronage of Mme Gamelin, wife of the French Generalissimo, and one, reputedly, received this characteristic note: "My wife excuses herself for being too busy to reply personally to your request that she be honorary president of your organization, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

So far, the big U. S. recording companies have been too busy improving the fidelity of discs to worry about film. But last fortnight London's Society for Cultural Relations with the U. S. S. R. showed Londoners that the Soviet Government had been pioneering in film records. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music on Film | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

>Its No. 1 industry, York Ice Machinery Corp., was last week very busy making refrigerator equipment for new U. S. warships.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War News | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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