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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain intends to turn out some 3,000 new R. A. F. officers each month, and if real air war starts, 36,000 a year will be none too many for replacement. That the cramped, foggy British Isles are no place to train fliers was suggested by casualty figures released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

The usual punishment in Nazi prison camps, according to the White Paper, for even slight offenses, such as failure to salute promptly, is "twenty-five strokes on the seat, carried out by two guards standing at each side with riding whips. The prisoner is lashed to a board. If he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: White Paper, Black Deeds | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

"Merry-Go-Round." The more inventive Nazi guards at Buchenwald, according to the White Paper, have a game they play with prisoners and trees: "If only a slight offense has been committed, the prisoners would be bound to a tree in such a way that they stood facing it and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: White Paper, Black Deeds | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Normally the male spermatozoon is what determines the sex of the offspring. If the spermatozoon has a male-determining chromosome pattern in its nucleus, the sex will be male; if not, female. Since there was no spermatozoon in the case of the fatherless rabbit, therefore no male-determining pattern, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pincogenesis | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Transcontinental Broadcasting System, Inc., Elliott Roosevelt's venture, is scheduled to go into business Jan. 1 with some 100 stations. All last week at The Blackstone in Chicago, the lure of Elliott's name, plus the promise of some 60 hours a week of steady if cut-rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Transcontinental | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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