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Word: howse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States it is my Constitutional duty to report to the Congress that our national defense is, in the light of the increasing armaments of other nations, inadequate for purposes of national security and requires increase for that reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Second to None | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

The Institute was established eleven years ago by the late Colonel William Boyce Thompson, copper tycoon, yachtsman, good friend of Roosevelt I. A Red Cross mission to Russia which he headed and helped pay for had taught him the importance of food crops. His interest in ornamental plants was aroused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plantarium | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

This course might more properly be called a philosophy of history, for it attempts to study the progress of the human race in all its totality and interpret from this the hows and whys of social metabolism. By means of the various theories of the structure and change of society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/26/1934 | See Source »

In his phenomenally popular The Art of Thinking Abbe Dimnet showed how men could add to their stature by taking thought. Lest mere headwork make them top-heavy he now writes more roundedly of the manly stature he believes all men desire. Motive for that desire he finds twofold-"the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Standbys | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

In this crisis the hows and whys of the embarrassment must be put aside in a drive to regain stability. There is no time for bickering and complaining. The important thing is that Yale standards are in danger; this danger must be removed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crisis | 5/10/1932 | See Source »

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