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Word: dooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Philadelphia brimmed with comedy, tragicomedy and a few dashes of pure drama. First tragicomedy came when a 42-year-old elephant named Lizzie died at the Zoo, prompting the New Dealish Record to watch for other signs of impending Republican doom. Last week Lizzie's cousin Josephine had been named official symbol of the Republican Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Convention City | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...ideal-but right or wrong, in victory or in defeat, in self-fulfillment or in frustration, we will not dissolve our partnership with God. He wages no Blitzkrieg against the forces of destruction and evil, but acts inexorably like the orderly succession of the hours, and brings doom upon the haughty pretenders to divine prerogatives. . . . Israel dare not die-because humanity needs its message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rabbis in Michigan | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Last week a crescendo of war talk swept over U. S. campuses. Commencement speakers dismissed their graduates with words of alarm, caution, doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Talk and Action | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...spawning a large number of a new kind of American, a youth who is afraid to fight," was given by Com. Robert C. Lee, executive vice-president of the Moore-McCormack lines . . . at the Chamber of Commerce last night. "If this number is allowed to increase," he said, "our doom is sealed. Unless the legions of America are ever eager and willing to fight for freedom and the Church of God then we are lost. I believe we still possess the elements of greatness, but the sooner we get into this fight, which is inevitably coming to us, the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...King of Prussia. Fuhrer Adolf, ac cording to some reports, would like to see Wilhelm II return to the Reich, live out his days as a Hohenzollern Junker; but the ex-Kaiser, while accepting the protection of Hitler's own guards, kept on chop ping wood at Doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Captains, Kings Depart | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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