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Word: earth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah's age, and I'm not sure he'll attain his goal." They wanted praise: "No power on earth has such a munitions industry. None has as good skilled workers. None has such intelligent workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Aims | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Peace on earth, good will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Sleep, 0 Comrades, in the warm earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Superman is an individual with the speed of an airplane, the strength of a locomotive, the leap of a cricket and the hide of a man of war. He was born on a distant planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only the infant Superman escaped. Reared in an earthly orphanage, he grew to manhood, felt his oats, dedicated his life to helping those in need. In the eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...grass and drink cool water but, she told the youngest camel, "that's just one of the things that can never possibly be. ... Because your father never took out any life insurance." "What about the caravan of white camels with solid gold hoofs that goes right around the earth?" her son objected. "Hooey," said his hard-Boyled mother. "A lot of hooey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Hoofs & Ice Cream | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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