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Word: earth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says Nazi Theoretician Ewald Banse, "is above all things a geographical phenomenon. It is tied to the surface of the earth; it derives its material sustenance from it, and moves purposefully over it, seeking out those positions which are favorable to one side, unfavorable to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Geography of Battle | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Ships brought them, and when their kings died they were buried in ships with their bows pointing toward the sea. Last week on a hilltop estate near Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, diggers unearthed for a Mrs. E. M. Pretty a funeral ship that had lain untouched under a mound of earth some 13 centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Outward Bound | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...three major U. S. broadcasting systems and several short-wave stations broadcast speeches to the four quarters of the earth. High point of the Congress came when Earl Baldwin (whom Dr. Butler in the excitement introduced as "Earl of Bewdsley") rose to speak. He began calmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Russell's Congress | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...watchman back on pay and went to work. From Stearman he hired brilliant, witty M. I. T.man Hall L. Hibbard to head his engineering department. In charge of sales he put smart Carl B. Squier, who had sold Lockheeds for the old company in every corner of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Net & Gross | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...screen as successfully with human actors as with cartoons. It can. As long as The Wizard of Oz sticks to whimsey and magic, it floats in the same rare atmosphere of enchantment that distinguished Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When it descends to earth it collapses like a scarecrow in a cloudburst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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