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Word: careful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buying, how to scotch the dictators and maintain peace at the same time, the U. S. was divided last week into two camps about as follows: 1) those who believe that the dictators cannot live forever and that anyhow Europe had best be left to take care of itself-they want a big stick just in case, and 2) those who want to stand up on top of the barricade, shake the stick in such an unequivocal manner that the dictators will mend their ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's for War? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...stars to make a good team, and the Crimson Cubs have more than it takes. They have real balance, and lots of capable reserves. Some of them would perhaps be regulars on the Freshman team in most any other year except this one. Center seems to be well taken care of with replacements; John Wolter and Gene Keith are capable pivot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

When the Judge Hardy series started out as minor second features, they had captured an ideal combination of humor and sentiment; now, as was probably inevitable, their success has prompted Hollywood to less care in their making, and they have become stereotyped. This is partly due, of course, to the fact that the audience knows perfectly well what is going to happen. They know that the Judge will become heavily involved in a deal and nearly lose everything; that Marion will fall in love with the wrong man, and have quite a time until her exasperatingly benevolent father straightens things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...foraged for food and wood to keep bonfires going, their only protection against the misty cold. There were no hospital facilities to take care of the 20,000 wounded. Soldiers and civilians injured in air raids wandered around, their wounds festering after days of inattention, looking for aid. Correspondents roaming through the refugee region sent back countless vignettes of human suffering: one crazed refugee, his arm blown off by an air raid, carrying his baby under his good arm, was looking for his wife and remaining children, who he did not know had been killed in the same air raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Retreat | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Thousands of seekers after health follow the syndicated writings of high-spirited, publicity-wise Dr. Logan Clendening (Modern Methods of Treatment, The Human Body, The Care & Feeding of Adults). Few of his readers know that Dr. Clendening lives in a residential section of Kansas City, Mo. (near Boss Tom Pendergast) and that ever since last October he has been subjected to a severe strain. Last week Dr. Clendening cracked under the strain, committed a savage infraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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