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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In The Bronx, sprawling northern borough of New York City, live a great many Jewish people of all shapes and sizes. Two who were about the same shape and size lived in the same apartment building at No. 250 East 178th Street. If you did not know them well, you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Error | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

As time passed the meaning of the treaty abrogation was more openly acknowledged. The nation was exhorted to call upon its reserve of selfdiscipline, to remain calm and optimistic. The U.S., it was argued, would probably not dare impose a trade embargo. If the worst happened, Japan could prepare for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Awakening | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Many Chinese were sure that the British had acquiesced in the violation of both the Nine Power Treaty and League of Nations commitments. What the U.S. action did was to encourage the British Government to put brakes on further concessions to Japan. The Tokyo talks between Negotiators Sir Robert and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Awakening | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

>After last week's air-raid tests German officials could boast that it takes 4,000,000 Berliners just one minute to clear the streets and scurry into air-raid shelters. A year ago the record was two minutes. Germany claims to have a peerless Air Force. But there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Tale of Three Cities | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

>The face of lovely Paris is pocked with gun emplacements, searchlight batteries, and trenches. Recently a demonstration of air defenses was held in the ditched and tunneled Esplanade des Invalides outside Napoleon's tomb. There are concrete gun platforms on the wooded Meudon and St. Cloud hills where Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Tale of Three Cities | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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