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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Peter the Great "was only great in driving force . . . probably the greatest beast who ever wore a crown." When his wife took a lover Peter had his head chopped off and placed in her bedroom preserved in alcohol. He also "developed a taste for whipping young girls in their teens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broad Russian Nature | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

The Japanese peasant is rigidly controlled by 1) rural custom, 2) government edict. Embree gives the intricate design of that control, suggests its points of stress. Suye Mura, like thousands of Japanese farming villages, is largely sustained by work exchange and other forms of communal cooperation. Farmers cooperate with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Upper Upper to Lower Lower | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Banks Romance | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Young college graduates especially are being sought for the nine months course winding up at Kelly Field, the government announced. The board, which will be located on the second floor of the Hygiene Building today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, has been interviewing undergraduates in Creater Boston colleges for the past two...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Board Interviews Future Cadets in Army Flying Plan | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Previous experience for candidates is not necessary, authorities pointed out, "yet after only nine months, with only 215 hours in the air, they are at the controls of a 400-mile-an-hour pursuit ship, or looking down from the heights of a giant 'Flying Fortress' rearing through the sky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Board Interviews Future Cadets in Army Flying Plan | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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