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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The only thing Latin Americans like better than a crisis is a strong man to sit back and look to during it. They habitually refer to such a cynosure as El Hombre -The Man. Last week Latin Americans picked out El Hombre to cope with the world crisis. They wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: The Man | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

And so the day after Prime Minister Hertzog told the House of Assembly that his Government's policy would "continue as if no war were being waged" he found that he had guessed wrong. Out he went, in went General Smuts. For by another unenthusiastic Assembly vote (80-to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: All In | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Only possible alternative for such a realignment would be absolute domination of the Far East by Japan. And the World War made this alternative the more pleasant and probable prospect to most Japanese. They already had a characteristic phrase for Europe's war-"Divine Gale" to blow all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ORIENT: Divine Gale | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

A notable exception among the foreign countries being given the bee: the U. S. Tokyo newspapers suddenly began to notice the importance of U. S. markets. A Japanese airline official turned up in the U. S. to make arrangements for a Japanese-owned Guam-Tokyo link with the China Clipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ORIENT: Divine Gale | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

When a man is perforated by a bullet, the bullet does not always go into or through him in a straight track, even when the holes where the bullet came in and 'went out are in a straight line. A sharp-nosed bullet is easily deflected by ribs or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Wounds | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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