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Word: handsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the actual belligerents, The Netherlands with its little policeman's army of 100,000 has not the barest fighting chance of defending itself should its borders be violated. And of all the neutrals save the strong and seagirt U. S., The Netherlands, with the world's third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

*Another famed exile to whom Wilhelmina gave sanctuary was Kaiser Wilhelm II, of Germany, at the close of the first World War. The Allies wanted to get their hands on him and try him. Wilhelmina called the Allied Ambassadors to her presence and lectured them on the rights of asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Uric acid retained in the bloodstream is likely to form chalky, stony deposits in the joints and in the cartilage of the ears. Frequently first to suffer is the joint of the big toe, then ankles, knees, hands and wrists. Common symptoms: cramps, inflammation, fever, headache, neuralgia, together with hot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prime Minister's Gout | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Sober, methodical and coolheaded, Violist Primrose is no sissy. His evenings are spent, not at musical tea parties, but at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Once a good boxer himself, still an avid connoisseur of right hooks and straight lefts, he no longer dares to get into the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Viola and Primrose | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

In every section of the U. S. last week the onetime rah-rah sport of football reached a state bordering on mass hysteria. In North Carolina, where once only alumni cared who won the Duke-North Carolina game, last week's clash between the Blue Devils of Durham and...

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

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