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Word: goings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might prey on other ships on the way home, the inspectors poked and peered everywhere through the ship and took their sweet time, two days. One of them, amid much merriment, even managed to fall overboard (see cut p. 14). They even made the Bremen's crew go through lifeboat drill. Furious, an official of the line said: "Now they are searching an empty swimming pool." The delay cost Germany some $6,000. Worse, it gave the British cruiser Berwick ample time to slip out of Bar Harbor, Me. and tag the Bremen across the Atlantic...

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

...easy for you and me to shrug our shoulders and say that conflicts taking place thousands of miles from the continental United States, and, indeed, the whole American Hemisphere, do not seriously affect the Americas, and that all the United States has to do is to ignore them and go about our own business...

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

...woman thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America sending its armies to European fields." (He did not say such armies might not eventually go to such fields...

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

...hell-for-leather army in Palestine, who had muttered against church pomposity and mustiness, who had been unhappy as curate of Philadelphia's swank Church of the Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke's unemployed parishioners. He told them to go into business for themselves. That first group raised $11,000 and within a few months more Rector Colony, their president, had wangled a $15,000 RFC loan. A small vacant mill was bought, 13 ancient knitting machines were put in shape and Colony Hosiery went into production. At first, without working...

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

...room. A middle-aged staff surgeon, wiped out in the crash of a big firm of drugmakers, commits suicide. In the operating room Surgeon Cavanaugh performs a "radical breast removal" in a state of jitters. (Six of his last nine cases had died.) The crisis comes when the lights go out. As they come on again he is suddenly his old self again. "For a minute," he quips, "I thought we'd forgotten to pay our light bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feverish | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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