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Word: germanic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monologuist Skinner speaks English, French, German, Italian, Russian, innumerable dialects, sign language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...combat Germany's ruthless new Minenkrieg (mine warfare)? Mr. Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying on her economic back half-throttled, had started kicking below the belt. "As a measure of justified reprisal" for "this fresh outrage," Germany should be throttled entirely. She should be cut off from her export markets, from which she derives foreign exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Full Throttle | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...began, 70% of Germany's export trade was with European countries, mostly The Netherlands, France and England. Japan, South America, Mexico and the Indies are Germany's biggest remaining export markets (outside of bartering with Russia). For example, Chile is waiting now for a big order of German railway equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Full Throttle | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union, with purely selfish designs intended neither to help nor to hinder Adolf Hitler. For America and the other neutrals, if they were not convinced by the Russo-German alliance last August or the joint Polish seizure of September, the Finnish invasion will remove any hesitation they had in placing Russia and Germany in the same category...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINLANDIA | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...Derived from the French "oui," the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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