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Word: germanic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nice idea, but what are you going to do if somebody sticks his nose inside the zone?" If the U. S. Navy, with what help its weak sisters to the South can give, actually throws a line of peace police around the Americas, can the 22 German merchantmen now holed up in Latin American ports return to coastwise trade-lanes, cruise without fear of British men-o'-war? What if British and German raiders meet within the safety belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nice Idea | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...movies in 1929, pondering the box office of Broadway Melody and wondering if the talkies were here to stay, could not have believed that 1938-39 would see the movies' greatest success-not a musical with an all-star cast, but an animated cartoon based on a German fairy tale, Snow White, in which dwarfs, gentle beasts, magic, and witchcraft were combined for the pleasure of children. Still less could they have visualized Pinocchio (see cut, p. 33) which promised to be more successful. No prophet of 1929, peering into the coming decade, could foresee the growth and acceptance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...with from these military dilettantes," the First Soldier of the Reich claimed that he "endeavored to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military importance, or only to employ it to combat active resistance at a given point." (For photographs and an accompanying eyewitness account of German restricted aerial warfare see p. 45.) Lie No. 3: All objective reports of the last days of besieged Warsaw agree that the Germans refused point-blank to allow the garrison to evacuate non-combatants from the city. Herr Hitler's variorum: "Sheer sympathy for women and children caused me to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...German victory, though it had to be won at times over odds of 6-to-1, was not only sweet but cheap in casualties, said the Führer (see p. 44). And now "German soldiers have once more firmly established the right to wear the laurel wreath of which they were meanly deprived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...contrary, I pledged my sacred word to the German people to do away with the Treaty of Versailles and to re-tore to them their natural and vital rights as a great nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Last Statement | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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