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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Look at the picture today! We are more familiar with Hitler's latest edict (made at 10 a. m. today) than we are with what our 14-year-old daughter, Jane, was doing out until 3 o'clock this morning. If we want to communicate with Neville Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

You know a fellow can get into an awful lot of messes when he starts helping the other fellow with his troubles instead of minding his own business. If he has nothing else to do, he ought to go fishing. . . . So, instead of building faster airplanes, bigger battleships and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Creston's nearly 9,000 residents do not consider it "tiny." It's the second largest town in the entire southwestern quarter of Iowa (Council Bluffs the exception) and Crestonians are proud of its up-and-comingness. Crestonman Elmo Roper of FORTUNE Survey needs take no poll to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

At the station the President handshook his friend Fred Botts, "dean" of the Warm Springs Foundation. "I'll be back for Thanksgiving," he said, "with provisos." He went up the ramp to the platform of his private car. The send-off crowd hushed itself, to hear his words of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Spirit of Warm Springs | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Junking. After Elder Stimson, Chairman Pittman next called Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, who served 21 years ago as chairman of the War Industries Board. His terse war sales formula has long been: "Come and get it." To Mr. Stimson's suggestion of discriminatory, perhaps embroiling embargoes, he answered: "If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extend? Revise? Junk? | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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