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Word: disturber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through their famed American Friends Service Committee, they urged that it would be "easier to start rebuilding the world now" than "after more years of destruction and exhaustion." They declared that peace was "not a static condition to be attained after the defeat of those who disturb it," but "a dynamic method by which to remove injustices, accomplish necessary readjustments, and remedy the evils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dynamic Friends | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Sing Sing last week one of them attacked the driver of their car with his unmanacled fist, and at the door of the prison they put on this show. They were locked up in the empty women's wing of the death house so that they could not disturb other men about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To The Death House | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...Brooks and Braemar sweaters," echoed an unidentified tutor who left with Holabird; "they're loose. But these girls who try to look like a picture out of Film Fun--they disturb the digestion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sweaters May be Taboo For Girls Eating in Bellboyland | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

...officer said: "Nevertheless disturb him." The guard raised his rifle, but the officer was quicker with his revolver. "Stand aside," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Freedom Takes A Bastion | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Utopia Undone. Commanding officer at Fort Bragg, N. C. is Major General Jacob Loucks Devers. Until last September his post was the peaceful habitat of some 5,000 field artillerymen. Aside from more or less perfunctory summer maneuvers, nothing much ever happened at Fort Bragg to disturb the routine of life in the hand some brick barracks, the pleasant officers' quarters, the not-so-pleasant, ramshackle quarters for noncoms. Some of the men at Fort Bragg had been there since World War I, hoped to die there. Older officers thought highly of Bragg as a quiet place to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Out of the Hole | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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