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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With big fuses sputtering among Europe's political high explosives, China's War has recently looked like a chain of twopenny firecrackers. But if a possible European blow-up involved Russia, what Japan was doing in the Far East would become vitally important. For some time there has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Last Line | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Radio stations have good reason to be skittish about the sort of religious programs they put on the air. Last year, before Easter, a religious drama was submitted to NBC which gave its executives quite a turn. Called The Living God, translated from the French of Cita and Suzanne Mallard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Living God | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

There were five Sheshonks who ruled Egypt during the 22nd Dynasty, founded about 950 B.C. If this long-dead king is the first of the Sheshonks-which further exploration may show him to be-then he is the same as the conquering, rapacious "Shishak" referred to in I Kings 14...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rarer Than Gold | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

* Imperial's present printed instruction: "Lap straps. . . . Use is optional. . . . Company recommends that they shall be used . . . during take-offs and alighting. . . . If you wish to use . . . ask the Flight Clerk. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Prophetic Skipper | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Bibliophiles are responsible for Bruce Rogers' reputation as "a limited editions man." But expensive limited editions, such as his Montaigne and Oxford Bible, account only indirectly for Bruce Rogers' influence on U. S. and British bookmaking. Far more influential were the trade editions he designed during his 17...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tramp Printer | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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