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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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So far the British have found no way to stop the smuggling. Even if a boatload of refugees is captured, the authorities are helpless, for all identification papers have been destroyed and there is no country to which they can be deported. Moreover, Secretary MacDonald's retaliatory prohibition of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Supreme Right | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Irked by Japanese boasts of knocking down Russian planes like clay pigeons, Red aviators bombed the railhead at Halunarshan, 125 miles behind the front. The Japanese had scarcely begun to protest that this was not cricket when a squadron of Russian bombers peppered Furoruji, almost 400 miles from the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTER MONGOLIA: Out of Bounds | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Last week, however, when the sun had set on the seventh annual All-Star game between the American League and the National League, baseball writers were ready to agree that their boy wonder, now 20, was all they had predicted. Chosen as one of the 25 players to represent the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stellar Feller | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Girls avoided the young man. He fell desperately in love with one of them, but was afraid to approach her. Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mother to Son | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Visiting in Manhattan between retakes of Gone With the Wind, in which she plays Scarlett O'Hara, picture-pretty, British-born Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (real name: Vivien Mary Hartley Holman) gave newsmen a sample of her synthetic Southern drawl: "Just think, honey, in only a week of studyin'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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