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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolver at him as he walked along the street, the gun wouldn't work. She took it to a gunsmith, had it fixed, waited for Coffman in a cafeteria. But the place was crowded. She was afraid someone else might get hit. Her third attempt was more successful. Even while she was talking, Coffman died in the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Terrific | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...already are receiving from ten to twelve carloads a day and it is not going very far," said Sidney T. Rowley, assistant relief commissioner. As for the WPA jobs, WPA Director Frank T. Miskell announced there were no new projects available, and few of the 16,000 were even fit for WPA work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: No Visible Means | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days with shooting down single handed six Red bombers. Finland was said to have lost only two planes in the first four days. But even blunderers must prevail when the air odds are 36 to one (the odds of roulette, without any zeros), if only by blasting out the defender's landing fields. In leaflets dumped on Helsinki, the Russians threatened mass bombing with 800 planes if the Finns did not capitulate at once. Should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 36-to-1 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...note Foreign Minister Erkko proposed that the Finnish-Russian dispute be submitted to "neutral arbitration." Meanwhile, Minister Erkko said, Finland offered to withdraw its forces to "such a distance from Leningrad that it could not even be alleged that they threaten its security." It was too late. The Kremlin had decided, and at midnight, preceded by the playing of martial music and by Red Army songs, Premier Molotov took to the radio, the same radio that had just been calling Finns "dirty dogs, clowns and bastards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Rabbit Bites Bear | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...wide autonomous rights. In 1905 the Finns went on a national strike against the Tsar's usurpation of their rights, and unprecedentedly won. The Red Terror that came with the 1917 Russian Bolshevik revolution was bad enough: the White Guard Terror which followed was even worse. The Finns are therefore used to trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arise, Finland! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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