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Word: howes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In an interview yesterday Fairbank described how our trade in China has always been dependent upon British sea power, a power which is rapidly diminishing in the Far East.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japanese Apt to Drive Americans Out Of China While War Diverts British | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

Finis? To poor China, all this was gloomy news. For every step which brings Russia and Japan closer together hasten-China's fall. Soon and late, Russia has been China's best friend-more constant and generous than Britain, the U. S. or France. But no one knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

What U. S. college girls are wearing, and how they feel about such a fighting subject as the corset was revealed last week by Manhattan's Women's Wear Daily. Surveyed, and well surveyed, were campus fashions at Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence (see above), Duke, Purdue, Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

When Margaret Farrand Thorp heard that 85,000,000 persons buy admissions every week to 17,000 movie houses in 9,000 U. S. towns & villages, she decided to find out why. She also wanted to know who the 85,000,000 are, what movies do to them and how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

The customer Hollywood tries hardest to please, according to Author Thorp, is the wife of a man earning more than $1,500, living in a city of more than 50,000 people. Her husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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