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Word: hint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confession came as he boomed: "I went all the way from party power to counterrevolution and terrorism and actually to Fascism! For Trotskyism plus terrorism is Fascism! I abandoned Karl Marx." Arabian Nights. In his dispatch the next afternoon United Press Correspondent Norman Deuel cabled a broad, revealing hint as to the nature of the trial which he managed to get past Soviet censors: "Unexpected histrionic ability by minor members of the cast robbed the stars of their spotlight today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Perfect Dictator | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...that now the sprint for the Vice-Presidency was under way. First to the platform, Senator Arthur Vandenberg seemed to have the race hands down. It was well known that the Landonites wanted him, and the authoritative ring of his first-person-singular announced his availability with twice the hint and confidence of Frank Knox's self-effacing remarks about this being no time for personal ambition. Iowa's bluff Senator Dickinson, Maryland's fat Governor Nice, New Hampshire's unfortunately named Governor Bridges* and all the other favorite sons were clearly out of the running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Mate | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...sour hint marred any of the reports delivered to the Mother Church meeting. According to these, some 150,000 "friendly and constructive" news items relating to Christian Science were published during the past year. Some 3,000,000 people all over the world heard 3,111 Christian Science lectures. Twenty-two new "societies" were founded, one of them by natives in remote mountains of the Philippine Islands. Circulation of the famed Christian Science Monitor (daily) advanced from 129,000 to 146,000, a new high. Indebtedness for remodeling the old Christian Science Publishing House as an administration building was paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Publishing Church | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...darkest of Bolshevik secrets. Curiosity is a major Russian trait and inquisitive tension throughout the Soviet Union was becoming terrific. With everyone fairly panting for news a few leaks oozed at last from the Commissariat of Justice. Comrade Andrei Philipov, Public Prosecutor of Moscow District, emitted the most startling hint. In 1930 was celebrated with great Bolshevik fanfare throughout Russia "The Decennial Anniversary of the Legalization of Abortion in the Soviet Union"-this always having been described by Communists as a boon conferred by the late great Nikolai Lenin. In Russia last week it was like the exploding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: New Constitution | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Townsend Plan had turned out to be only another mean racket, with poor deluded oldsters as its victims, such charges simply made most observers believe that good, grey Dr. Townsend was being used as a front by sharpers who had swarmed into his Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. First hint that Dr. Townsend was more than a simple, pious figurehead came last March when shrewd young Robert Earl Clements, cofounder, national secretary and working boss of Old Age Revolving Pensions, suddenly resigned from the organization on the eve of his appearance before a special House investigating committee (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Messiah on the March | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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