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Word: crowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty thousand people crowded Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Splash Answer | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Skeels told how he took 13 mentally retarded pre-school infants away from a bleak Iowa orphanage packed with healthy, intelligent moppets, and placed them in a home for feeble-minded girls. The inmates lavished upon the deficient babies a wealth of feeble-minded love. They made them toys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeble-minded Love | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Harvard big-wigs crowded the auditorium of the four-story building to hear addresses by President Conant, Dean Williams, Charles Francis Adams '88, president of the Board of Overseers, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Albert F. Bigelow '03, and Littauer himself, who just a year ago laid the cornerstone in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Donor Dedicates Littauer School to Training Leaders | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

As Chancellor of the Exchequer, eloquent William Ewart Gladstone made budget speeches famous. Winston Churchill used to gesture a lot. Neville Chamberlain (now Prime Minister) usually had the amiable duty of announcing surpluses. To Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer for nearly two years, has come the unenviable task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can Take It | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

History is at best violent, doubly so in such periods. Bombers over Shanghai and Guernica, refugees from Barcelona and Prague, tell stories whose raw horror blurs the minds of those who try to understand the causes of war. When philosophers, economists, historians try to penetrate the wild surface of events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: 1,063 Weeks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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