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Word: himly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the unlucky Chinese began to feel the gale's force. Having once hated foreign devils for exploiting China, now they look upon them as China's white hope for resistance against Japan. But the European War lessened probability of aid from the white man. In Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ORIENT: Divine Gale | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

When a man is perforated by a bullet, the bullet does not always go into or through him in a straight track, even when the holes where the bullet came in and 'went out are in a straight line. A sharp-nosed bullet is easily deflected by ribs or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Wounds | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

One day some eight years ago, University of Colorado's grand old man and president, George Norlin, argued long and earnestly with a friend in Denver, a 38-year-old corporation lawyer named Robert Lawrence Stearns. Dr. Norlin was trying to persuade his friend to come to his university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academic Poverty | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

A gaunt, shy Swede, the son of a frontier family, George Norlin put himself through college and became a great Greek scholar. He also became one of the strong men of U. S. education. In 40 years at Colorado, 20 as its president, he made it the best university between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academic Poverty | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

As entertainment, The Rains Came suffers from the fact that it uses its salvo of disasters not to solve the problems of its characters, but to heighten them. Since these characters to begin with are as slick and typical a pack as ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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