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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were elated, too, over the visit to their capital of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, onetime President of the Indian National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Straws | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

>England's pert Pam Barton, 22 and already twice British golf champion, who won the U. S. title three years ago and looked as if she were going to repeat until she met New Jersey's slick-putting Charlotte Glutting in the third round.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfermes | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Painted as if from an elevation (see cut) with little sky and no perspective, the prize picture showed a log cabin, a Negro couple in a buggy, a hunter and his dog, children drinking at a well, cats, chickens, livestock, a plow and a manure pile. Said Professor Faricy to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Primitive | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

If war came, the custodians of Europe's civilization knew it would mean a long silence for man's communion with literature and art. But they were ready for it, sure that somehow knowledge would survive in the dark chambers and subterranean crypts where they had secreted it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wires Down | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

> Snobs who brag of their ancestry betray their ignorance of genetics. Each person receives 24 chromosomes from each parent, an average of twelve chromosomes from his grandparents, six from his greatgrandparents, only one or two from his great-great-great-grandparents. "If you claimed descent from Miles Standish, the odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: When Gene Meets Gene | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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