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Word: dooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most notable refugee of World War I reached safety in The Netherlands, just in time, settled at Doom. Last week the world was significantly reminded that Adolf Hitler regards World...

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

Momentarily overshadowed by the doom-clappers were the day-to-day, irritating small fry, Lords Haw-Haw and Hee-Haw, Lady Hee-Hee, Schmidt & Smith, Fritz & Fred. But not for long. With the invasion of the Low Countries a fact, the propagandists blared with renewed vigor. England's BBC continued its dry, unemotional, institutional adver-"ising of the Allied cause; Germany, trying hard to sell the righteousness of its aims to neutral listeners, found a man for American-language broadcasts, a pitchman-voiced commentator who called himself E. D. Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mr. Wisecrack | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...natural withering and the "external insults" of disease. With age the human heart grows broader at the base, more pointed at the apex. Heart muscle fibres turn dark brown, heart valves stretch like old rubber tubes, lose their youthful elasticity. But all of these changes are normal, none spells doom. In healthy persons "the cardiac pump itself usually functions without faltering into advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Hearts, Old Brains | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Bearded Germanophile Poultney Bigelow, 84, good friend and biographer of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, after a visit to Germany but not to his 81-year-old friend at Doom, returned to the U. S., exclaimed: "I'm so homesick, I can't see straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Next came a bigger portent-to Republican ears, a first toot on a 1940 trump of doom for the Democrats. Alvin Vinton ("Honest Vic") Donahey, Democratic Senator from Ohio since 1934, announced his retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Back to Normalcy | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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