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Word: hospitalers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As Europe buzzed excitedly about Mr. Roosevelt's ominous, mysterious "reports." U. S. observers guessed that he might be fighting crisis with crisis, as forest fires are fought. If European crisis-criers (see p. 19) were right and another Munich was really in the offing, his diplomatic flaring might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

The men foraged for food and wood to keep bonfires going, their only protection against the misty cold. There were no hospital facilities to take care of the 20,000 wounded. Soldiers and civilians injured in air raids wandered around, their wounds festering after days of inattention, looking for aid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Retreat | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Shortly after the war started se४r Barriobero became the presiding judge of the anarchists' revolutionary "People's Tribunal" in Barcelona, where he prided himself on following his own personal principles of justice. He soon ran afoul of the Loyalist Government, was accused of pocketing some of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Judge's Trial | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Pretty Mary Rogers (Sylvia Sidney) lives in a firetrap. When a fire breaks out, her small brother falls off a ladder, a bystander (Leif Erikson) takes both to the hospital. He turns out to be the owner of the tenement. Convinced that he has been remiss, he decides to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Social Insignificance | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

In a Waikato, New Zealand, hospital, Harold Ryder got bored lying in bed. To while away the time, he asked for a fresh egg, "set" on it steadily for 25 days, hatched a healthy white Leghorn chick.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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