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Word: earths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most practical manner of opening up avenues of international trade to the end that every nation of the earth may be enabled to buy and sell on equal terms in the world market, as well as to possess assurance of obtaining the materials and products of peaceful economic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Will to Peace | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...nothing on earth can stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Gridirony | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan. The day the indictments came down, Culprit O'Malley attended a three-hour mass in Baltimore. But as righteous Attorney-General Murphy announced last week, "no power on earth" was big enough to block Murphy justice, not even prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: BIGGER THAN HINES | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...tourist sometimes encounters a mysterious and appalling sight-thousands of jalopies, driven by hungry-faced men, bulging with ragged children, dirty bedding, blackened pots & pans. Hated, terrorized, necessary, they are migrant workers who harvest the orchards and vineyards, the cotton and vegetable fields of the richest valleys on earth. Their homes are filthy squatters' camps on the side roads, beside the rivers and irrigation ditches. Their occupational diseases are rickets, pellagra, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, starvation, sullen hatred exploding periodically in bloody strikes. Old American stock, they are mostly refugee sharecroppers from the Dust Bowl of the Southwest and Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oakies | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee Author Kesten, and decides not to commit suicide but to sit in judgment on "all the smug, indifferent people on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Novels | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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