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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Roosevelt telephoned to Secretary of State Hull at the Carlton Hotel, also to Under Secretary of State Welles, Secretary of War Woodring, Acting Secretary Edison of the Navy. Acting Secretary of the Treasury* John Hanes was roused. Lights went on in all Washington's key executive offices. Before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preface to War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Having read so much ridiculing Governor Dickinson of Michigan for his utterances, I am prompted to express my feelings. First, permit me to state that I am not a crusader or reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Fritz Kuhn, No. 1 U. S. Nazi, walked into his Manhattan office at 9 a.m. the morning German troops walked into Poland, immediately changed his map of Europe to make all western Poland the map color of Germany. Said Kuhn: "It will be all over in a few days."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Foreigners have several times conquered Poland, but few foreigners have ever mastered the pronunciation of Polish. It has a peculiar letter similar to L which is pronounced like W; W is pronounced like V or F; CZ like SH; SZ as in the word "azure." Poles also frequently half tick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Colonymaid is the fifth textile plant that Rector Colony has established in the past eight months.* It all started last year when to Rector Colony's office under the rumbling Frankford Street elevated went a delegation of 55 unemployed hosiery workers to ask him for jobs. Lithuanian-born David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Entrepreneur of God | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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