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Word: handedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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If I were Hitler-I'd lease a house at Doorn, put in a good supply of logs, a couple of left-handed saws (in case Benito visits) and commence writing a sequel to Mein Kampj entitled-you can fool some of the people all the time, all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Therefore, the Premier was convinced, "our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will display its combative might," and Russia was still neutral. Notes saying the same were handed the diplomatic representatives of the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Finland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dizziness From Success | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Boxer Lou Nova, who spent three years at the California College of Agriculture, is a serious sort, reads books, diets, sleeps long, goes for some queer fangles in fighting. For the Baer fight, for example, he trained at the yoga roost of Dr. Pierre Bernard, the Omnipotent Oom of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Barrel Palooka | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Britain's first air-raid scare produced two flatly conflicting stories passed through the censor to the U. S. before the War Office's own propaganda agency (under oldtime Hackwriter Ian Hay) got out the third or "official version" (see p. 15). Foreign correspondents were driven into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fact & Fiction | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Rimbaud was brought up by a tight-fisted mother who was open-handed only with her slaps. Until he was 15, she took him to school every day so that he would not tarry with naughty schoolmates. During the dislocations of the Franco-Prussian War, Rimbaud, who was already writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Season in Hell | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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