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Word: deeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made some resolutions, had theadvice of long-armed Negro Lawyer Raymond Pace Alexander. They ducked well-wishers, salesmen, and returned $2,133.90 to the County Relief Board. They paid their debts, set aside $57,588 for income tax, redeemed the precious things they had pawned. Then they drew a deep breath and cautiously began to acquire a few of the things which, in their wildest moments, they had dreamed about. Pearl got her new home ($3,000) and furniture. Ben got a Packard; Frances, 10, the whole set of Wizard of Oz books, Ben Jr., 6, new clothes. When they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Appraising Western reaction to Tom Dewey's first G.O.P. campaign speech last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 18), Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota dryly reported "rather a deep interest in what Mr. Dewey's policies will be." Aspirant Dewey in his second full-dress speech last week

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...back up could be partially explained by the fact that the expulsion was proposed and engineered primarily by those Latin American, Catholic nations to which everything that the Soviet Union stands for has long been anathema. World-wide sympathy for Finland was important, but not more so than the deep-seated hatred harbored by capitalist countries for the land of Communism. Moreover, with Germany, Italy and Japan out, the League has become more & more a unilateral organization headed by France and Britain and composed of neutrals dependent upon British and French good will. A many-sided League never did agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Into an Indianapolis hospital, three years ago, interns carried a screaming two-year-old girl who had just fallen over backwards into a scalding tub of water. Her burns were not deep, but they stretched from her plump shoulders to her knees. She had a 1-to-3 chance to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Water | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...born for war. . . . He was meditating on the principles of the military art at a time when those of his age were at school and chasing after girls. . . ." Brooding because his greatness of soul escaped general notice, he sometimes "passed whole hours meditating in the depths of the woods . . . deep in reverie, by the light of the silver star of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Novelist | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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