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Word: handsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Men, women, children of all walks of life took spades in hand and dug 13 miles of zigzag trenches in parks, playgrounds, lawns, vacant lots. The rich rode in limousines to shady Lazienki Park, were bowed out by chauffeurs, pitched in until soft hands were raw. Men went straight from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Three quickest ways for a belligerent to get a neutral nation into a general war (as an enemy): bomb the nation's property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Intimate Concern | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

In two shows of hands which took just two minutes to call and count, the Supreme Soviet "unanimously approved" the Hitler-Stalin deal.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Arms & Art | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

To derive this pacific outcry from the Voice of Guatemala, it was necessary to have at hand a dictionary of Sirela, an international radio language that for 25 unrewarding years has been the preoccupation of an ardent, peace-bent violinist named Carlo Spatari. Spatari brought his fiddle to the U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

When the librarian of Windsor Castle in 1930 dropped in the hands of 27-year-old Kenneth Clark the job of cataloguing the King's collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings, a rich artistic province was bestowed on an obscure subaltern. Clark's qualifications consisted mainly in the esteem of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Light in Los Angeles | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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