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Word: huts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Government, a peasant who turned classical scholar, organized the Communist Party in China, and became as well-known to Chinese as Chiang Kai-shek when Chiang Kai-shek put a price of $250,000 on his head. Evenings, perched on a stool inside Mao's solid-stone hut, Snow slowly took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, Mao organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite the internal feuds and contradictory policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Reds | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...glaring eyes draw nearer, become friendly. The docile creatures of the wood, wild-eyed because they are as frightened as Snow White, quickly make friends-bush-tailed squirrels and striped chipmunks, birds, horny turtles, and a big-eyed, bangtailed buck. Joyously they lead Snow White to a slovenly little hut they know of. When the dwarfs who own the hut return from their day's work in the diamond mine, they are alarmed to find their hovel spick-&-span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Queen, this one does not waste time trying to comb Snow White's hair with a poisoned comb or choke her by pulling her laces too tight. With white eyes leering from her hag's hood and a pimple on her nose, she pops up at the hut after the dwarfs have gone to work. Snow White forgets the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in. She takes a bite of the red, delicious-looking poisoned apple. The apple brings the sleeping death for which the only cure is love's first kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...cannot bear to part from her. They let her sleep in a glass coffin. One day the Prince, wandering far and wide, hears of the girl who lies asleep in a glass box and when he sees her, kisses her. Snow White awakes and there is gaiety in the hut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Typically, several Arabs, choosing a moment when guards of the Christian Lydda Airport had relaxed their patrol and were resting in a watchman's hut, set fires which caused airport buildings and equipment to burn last week for a loss of $100,000. Next, the police station at Daharieh, between Hebron and Beersheba, was overwhelmed by Arabs who made off with the Christian policemen's arms, shouting: "Tell your English bosses to go drink whiskey and play football! They should not think they can fight us. We will drive them out of Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Go Drink Whiskey! | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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