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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the amazement of A. R. P. organizers, 95% of the women employes answered "Yes." Calling in the chief of the women's division, the organizers asked her if she had explained to the girls exactly what claustrophobia meant. "Oh yes," said she, "I told them it meant being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Claustrophobia | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

For home comment on the news, NBC picked big-name specialists General Hugh Johnson and Dorothy Thompson. In her broadcast of last Friday night, Miss Thompson sounded as if she were itching to get her fingers in Hitler's hair. When Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

LASISIDO - "Strict neutrality is essential. We do not want war. We do not need war. And as God is my witness, we will not have war if I can prevent it."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Sirela, however, is not all peace talk. The dictionary has a column of symbols each for murder (FAREBORE - "The police are holding the victim's fiance for the murder") ; kidnapping (FAMIMIDO - "The child was lured from its home while at play"); vital statistics (FASIDOFA - "The birth of triplets was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Many a scientist, contemplating with heavy heart last week the outbreak of war in Europe, recalled with bitterness the layman's charge that "Science has made war horrible." Scientists do not feel that science is responsible for the frightfulness of modern war. They have pursued the conquest of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science & War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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