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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Believe me, nowadays we are (the few Hungarians who are lucky enough to know your beautiful language) hungry to read articles like the one mentioned above, and if we get a fresh copy of your magazine, the first thing is to turn the pages till we come to Foreign News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

For eleven months in 1924-25, Harlan Fiske Stone introduced a period of zealous prosecuting efficiency in the Department of Justice, even going so far as to press for antitrust investigation of Aluminum Co. of America, dominated by the family of his Cabinet colleague, Andrew Mellon. Mr. Stone was soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

¶ Coastal mosquitoes are few, but those in the interior bad. Oldtimers swear you can't tell mosquitoes in the interior from ducks, unless you know a lot about ducks. >In southeastern Alaska within five miles of tidewater, enough timber can be cut annually to supply one-quarter of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Defrosting | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Warsaw struck back, arrested the Nazi leader of Polish Germans, disbanded pro-Nazi German organizations. And although Germany swung troops into Slovakia, P'o-land's Ambassador to the U. S., Count Jerzy Potocki, summed up Polish feeling in Washington: "Just as surely as you see me sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Offensive | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

German-Polish conflict sharpened. Often tagged as Hungary's next Premier, Count Csaky waited until a few hours before news of the German-Russian Anti-Aggression Pact fell like a bomb on Europe's capitals. Then he said suavely what nationalistic Hungarians wanted to hear: "An independent and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Nationalism | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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