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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Council) would combine in a Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Last October the Fascist Grand Council decreed the abolition of the old Chamber. Last December the Chamber obediently held its last session, sang Giovinezza, passed unanimously Signor Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws and cheerfully voted its own death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Theorist | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...there were a prospect of an aggressor launching an attack on Britain, with bombers raining death on London, I have no doubt what the decision of the Canadian people and Parliament would be. We would regard it as an act of aggression, menacing freedom in all parts of the British Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Something Missing | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Such, for this typical middle-class English family, was the morning after the air raid. The town was Southampton, the story fictitious. But Ordeal makes the air raid and the days that follow as natural as death. The raid had come about midnight-without warning, without sound of planes. The Corbett house was not hit. Only the windows were missing, letting a cold March rain sough in over the rugs and furniture. "What's it all about, anyway?" asked Corbett. "I dunno," said Neighbor Littlejohn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Cause For Alarm | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

That night, because it was moonlit, they expected worse hell. But no bombers came at all. The next night it rained again. Again at midnight the bombs fell. Neighbor Littlejohn was wounded, his wife killed. Death missed the Corbetts by inches. Enemy planes had bombed blind, from above the clouds, taking sextant bearings from the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Cause For Alarm | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate in air raids, he says, is one per bomb; the rate of death is one to three casualties; hence three bombs are needed to kill one civilian. Thus, Ordeal's typical air raid wounds only about 67,000, kills little more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Cause For Alarm | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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