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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatic Front. Still woefully weak in both man power and material, the Finns left nothing undone to get aid. To keep their U. S. reputation as good debtors (which privately they consider highly amusing) they paid the $234,693 installment on their loan. Tickled pink by the League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Soldiers, Arise! | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Already in this war, said M. Giraudoux, more British sailors and French soldiers have been lost than in those "battles to save the world- Thermopylae and Valmy."* Moreover, "even if it means boring the world to tears," the Allies are not going to bother about giving a "performance packed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: No Box Office | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The Green Room's college cast offered a smooth, intelligent performance. If they often Jacked force, and could almost never suggest the dark corners of the Renaissance soul, they were seldom stagy, seldom obscure, spoke blank verse with distinction. Broadway might have done better, but Broadway refuses to try...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ The actors (who otherwise play their roles straight) have made a game of altering their lines if the crowd beats them to the draw. Thus the villain, when led away by the police, pauses to say "Foiled!" He was almost licked one night when the crowd shouted not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

"Shoe" Shoemaker was self-converted in 1925, joined an Assembly of God church. Since then, he has never started a day at his drawing board without praying, reading from the Bible. But he discovered that "when you become a Christian, you're all alone in the world-especially if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gospel Cartoonist | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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