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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruno Mussolini was this week discovered to be in active bombing service with the Rightist airforce in Spain. II Duce once remarked: "Bruno is an idealist and I let him do what he wants. In fact, I approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini's Roach | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...risk policies will be forced to start "working for peace," concluded: "The wide radius of action of modern aircraft has made the area of destruction almost illimitable. Incendiary bombs have increased enormously the potential damage to property. Writing of war risk insurance on land has become in fact little more than a gamble, which plays no part in insurance, where rates are based on scientific application of the law of averages as ascertained through experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Snatch & War Risks | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...separated? . . . Certainly the contrast between the respected and secure position of the Church in America and its troubles in Catholic Spain demonstrates conclusively that separation of Church and State is as beneficial to the Church as it is to the State. Yet we cannot help being disturbed by the fact that no leaders of the Catholic Church in America have raised their voices in repudiation of the position taken by the Spanish hierarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Open Letter | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...stopped the stalk from bending toward light. When Boysen Jensen glued the tip back on, the stalk started bending again, although only the tip was exposed to light. This indicated that some light-sensitive something was dribbling down into the stalk from the tip across the wound gap. The fact that a special substance, instead of a vague irritant, was involved was first clearly demonstrated by Paál of Hungary. In 1925 Seubert of Germany found plant-stimulating substances outside of plants-in saliva, pepsin, malt extract, diastase. These substances were christened "auxins" by Kögl of Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Hormones | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...small pumpkins compared to this. Silver plaques and cash prizes ($10-$2.50) were awarded in four classes: culinary art, art work, needlework and miscellaneous crafts. Judges included President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, McClelland Barclay, George Biddle. Arthur William Brown. Dean Cornwall. Hal Phyfe. Most striking fact about the watercolors. photographs, oils, drawings and caricatures of Waldorf workers was that virtually none of them bore any relation to the life of the hotel. Some of the prize winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Waldorf Art | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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