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Word: favorities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herr Hitler did not begin by talking peace. In fact for almost an hour of his 80-minute address-a loosely knit discussion with few of the great dramatic lifts that characterized the Führer's oratory before he began to discard his street-corner style in favor of what he considers the more statesmanlike fashion-he talked about almost everything except peace. Germans and colored folk like their sermons long and discursive, and, in spite of a disordered world's need for straight plain talk, that is the way the Germans are still getting them from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Williams lost Saturday to Yale when the Elis scored two goals in the first seven minutes before the strong Williams defense settled down. For the rest of the game play was even, and the score at the end was 3-1 in favor of the Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS OPEN SEASON AT WILLIAMS TOMORROW | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

Although Bird was offered an automobile ride to Chicago, he passed it up in favor of riding the rails. College friends last night said that Bird had made a hobby of traveling this way, and had covered large parts of the South in box cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Junior Killed on Syracuse Railroad Track | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...Daily Princetonian had nothing to say editorially about war. But Editor Robert P. Hazlehurst admitted: "There's not much doubt as to how Princeton men feel about the war: we are naturally biased in favor of the Allies." Meanwhile at Vassar College, in the Miscellany, Editor Nancy Mclnerney of South Bend, Ind., spoke for young womanhood: "We don't want our husbands shot. We favor the cash-and-carry act because it is more neutral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aye or Nay? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...stories without Government interference. At the Taverne, Italian restaurant in Kurfürsten Strasse, they could sit around the newsmen's stammtisch (regular customers' table) sipping their brandy-and-lemon Nikolaevskys long after Berlin's 1 a.m. war curfew, when other restaurants closed. As a special favor the Government gave them laborers' rations: two pounds of meat a week, instead of the single pound allotted to white-collar workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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