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Word: hardheadedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Problem. Hardheaded diplomats deplored the rocketing headlines over the case of City of Flint. U. S. diplomatic history is crammed with such cases; the U. S. has an impressive record of skill in litigation over them. The likelihood that the future will see more important issues made it desirable that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Reporters scurrying to check up found that current U. S. diplomacy looked good in Finland and Russia. Thin, hardheaded, 47-year-old Ambassador Steinhardt in Moscow got a reputation for keenness as a lawyer, a trade expert, a ballyhoo-proof prophet of the 1929 crash, long before he won a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To the Finland Station | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Early this year Major James R. Randolph, U. S. Army Ordnance Reserve, predicted in Army Ordnance that rockets would eventually assume a major role as carriers of high explosives. Hardheaded Major Randolph declared that "in the present state of the art, there probably would be no great difficulty in equaling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rockets? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

No exception to the Simon & Schuster rule, Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock's Men of Music, was deliberately modeled on a previous success,Thomas Craven's Men of Art. To write it, the publishers hired no established bigwig of professional music criticism, but a couple of relative unknowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Outline of Musicians | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Hardheaded, commonsensical, down-to-earth, tough guy-to-tough guys as the Führer is mystical, Field Marshal Goring made a good job of it. For home consumption he piled up the cheering news: Victory in Poland within two weeks ("our divisions marched as humans never marched before") would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Aims | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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