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Word: chinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other members of the Independent Voters' executive committee were announced: Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, Harvard Law School's Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: In the Bag? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...heaved his 14 stone against the door. It would not budge. He lit a match and observed that the mirror over the washstand was fogging from his breath. Scared stiff, he grabbed -a razor and forced it between the door and its frame. This admitted a little air, a chink of light. By diligently manipulating the razor Captain Margesson made a big enough hole to keep breathing, then he went to work on the door catch. Four hours later he staggered out exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Shuffle | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Permitted quotas for Germany (27,370), Poland (6,524), Czecho-Slovakia (2,874), Hungary (869), Lithuania (386), Yugoslavia (845), Albania (100), were filled to the last refugee chink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Travel Log | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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