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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strict censorship masked the question of who fired the first shot on the Western Front. The Germans had sworn it would not be they. Their basic strategy was to hold their West Wall (Siegfried or Limes Line) from the Ruhr to the Alps. Allied strategy was to bring such pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Black Sunday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

But everybody jumped when at the first shot the war of nerves leaped the Atlantic. All the frights in the Balkans that had seemed remote to U. S. citizens became more understandable; the pledges of neutrality of Rumania, Yugoslavia, Italy, looked a little more real in discussions of U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ultimate Issue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

In the trenches amid mud, vermin, bad food and the repeated shock of shells exploding all around, the 7O-year-old body of Neville Chamberlain would probably become a physical wreck in a few hours. But at the end of last week the British Prime Minister had been through 13...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Change | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

The test of Britain's Government was not its claim to the loyalty of its people, which few doubted, but the ability of its venerable institutions to change quickly, to face a crisis, to adjust its slow-turning machinery to the swift emergencies of war. Test of Britain's men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Great Change | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

"Women who during the past few days have found themselves in uniform for the first time are inquiring as to the most suitable underclothing to wear with it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vest and Pantie | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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