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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a European observer has guessed that the Nazis have two interlocking plans for war in Europe this summer: first a lightning-strike and then, if it fails, a deadlock in front of their defenses on the Western Front. If they win their Blitzkrieg they can take what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: We Have Guaranteed | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

If the Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, wants to convince Adolf Hitler that Britain will allow him no further land grabs, one sure way to do it would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winnie For Sea Lord? | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Now nominally a Conservative, he has often played for a time on other political sides if he thought the game suited him that way. Most British politicos therefore mistrust him. But he has had an unsettling record of being right a long time before most people realized it. Ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winnie For Sea Lord? | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Disturbed by the number of German youths who have skipped across the frontier to join the French Foreign Legion, Nazi officials decided that Young Germany was reading too many thrillers like Beau Geste and Under Two Flags. Last week all books on the Foreign Legion were banned from German school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Romance? | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Across the East River at the World's Fair a group of youthful and Metropolitan Occidentals, members of the Young American Artist's Association, were also showing their wares. The 75 drawings and paintings flapped against the barnlike outside walls of the Contemporary Arts Building from dawn to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tot Shows | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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