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Word: easterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English banknotes found on one of the prisoners to a German bank. This tended to confirm the suspicions of many Britons that the Nazis were not above backing the terrorist activities of the I. R. A., as German guns and ammunition backed the Irish revolutionaries in the Easter Rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Hour Has Come! | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Should the contract be accepted, the waitresses, largest single class of workers affected, will receive $18 a week, Christmas and Easter vacations at full pay. They now get $14 with vacations at half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A.F.L. DEMANDS CLOSED SHOP IN DINING HALLS | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

...increase of $1,523,303 over the year before. Per capita donations rose $1.04, to $21.24. Presbyterian membership dropped 21,112 souls, but only on paper. At Eastertime 25,000 people usually join the church, and the past fiscal year, ending last March 31, did not include Easter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Up $1,523,303 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...great states are notable as practicing Christians. China's Chiang Kai-shek is. Last week a new testimony to the Generalissimo's faith was circulated in the U. S. It was a translation of a radio speech, Why Believe in Jesus?, which he made last Easter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Why Chiang Believes | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

When the bloody bubble of Dublin's Easter Rising fizzled out in 1916, it left a number of ruined buildings, a few snipers still forlornly shooting from housetops, a profound wave of disillusionment in the Irish revolutionary movement. Last week, a young Irishman named Louis Lynch D'Alton dramatized the change in revolutionary hearts in a bitter first novel that showed how two Irishmen reacted to the Easter Week fiasco. To Revolutionist Andrew Kilfoyle, who fought in it, the Rising was sickening, "a revolt of poets and schoolmasters," inept, ill-planned, melodramatic, futile. It convinced him that next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Shocker | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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