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Word: dover (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, a U. S. tourist, miffed when French customs agents warned her that the tax-free time limit on her $6,669 Cadillac had nearly expired and that she would have to take it out of the country or pay a heavy duty, embarked with it for England. At Dover customs officials barred the car's entry. Deeply miffed, she abandoned her Cadillac, had it dumped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...last few years the German press has indicated that some day North Schleswig would be returned to the Reich. While Britain indicated last month that she would fight if Denmark were invaded, the Danes know that the German Army could probably be in Copenhagen before the British could leave Dover. The urgent necessity for Denmark is not to arouse the German Führer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: No Thank You, Herr Hitler | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Germany's fleet plowed past the cliffs of Dover (see p. 23), Benito Mussolini called Franklin Roosevelt a Messianic meddler and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a convivial vociferator* (see p. 26), but still there was no actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reason & Emotion | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...nominate for Man of the Year the twins, Judas Iscariot and Neville Chamberlain. L. LEE LAYTON JR. Dover, Dela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Chamberlain and me, a parcel came for the black cat-two Dover soles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: My Day | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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