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Word: fine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sugiyama (along with others of the military caste) feels himself responsible only to the Emperor. Fifty-nine years old, he was once a military attache at Paris, at another time a delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1926. The prattle of diplomats, the explanations of foreign offices, the fine points of parliamentarians are not, however, for him. Last week he bluntly reiterated the Army's price for raising the blockade: Britain's recognition of Japan's Asia-for-the-Asiatics policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Ultimatum and Blockade | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...personable wife Sophie, who was 46, came to join him, and they put up at a hotel in Ilidze, about twelve miles from the provincial capital, Sarajevo. It rained dismally on the maneuvers, but the morning of St. Vitus' day dawned fair and fine. To celebrate it they had planned to pay a state visit to the provincial capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: One Morning in Bosnia | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...threshing out the news. After breakfast he walks to his roomy, book-lined studio where with much pacing and squirming and pipe-smoking, he struggles to express a complex idea in a few vivid lines and a brief, usually wry, caption. The final drawing is done rapidly with a fine brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nuisance | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Merriwell" books, reminisced: "The stories were written in a Victorian age. ... If I did them today, I'd make the characters more natural. Frank used to say, 'You're a great guy.' Now I'd make him say, 'You're a damned fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Philadelphia district court slapped a $700,000 sitdown damage fine against a branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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