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Word: inners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the staff of the Paris Embassy last summer, Earle saw the inner workings of these dim steps to war, but more important, he talked with men of every station, from diplomatic dignitaries down. Only a few days before Germany marched, Earle visited Ambassador Biddle in Poland, and his account of feudal Poland is the high point of the book. It shows clearly the political set-up under which the Polish peasant labored and the nation's reaction to the inevitable annihilation ahead...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...Franklin Roosevelt had a long talk with Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas few days back. Its gist, as freely reported in inner circles: That the President solemnly told Mr. Douglas that he was the Crown Prince & Heir Apparent to the New Deal but that his election in 1940 is an impracticable dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...honor to play the French horn with the Budapest string ensemble, as "snub-nosed." (I like her picture, myself.) And you deal with the instrument. The "horn" (the forest horn as the Germans call it), famed for the nobility of its tone, used chiefly to give an inner core of golden harmony to the music of the great orchestra, an instrument sonorous and yet almost incomparably romantic; for you it "beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister, just a word with you. In the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...basic argument for France's having closest economic collaboration from Britain and the support of her banking system and gold reserve was that France has called to the colors five men to Britain's one. While she holds the Maginot Line, Britain should protect the inner front. M. Reynaud and Sir John also agreed that just because there is a war going on-especially a standstill war where the real fighting is economic, by blockade and the capture of Germany's export markets-is no reason why business and commerce should not go ahead in both countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Mouse & Lion | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...viola is in nature an undersized pansy. In art it is an oversized violin with a tubby, whiskey-contralto voice. Except for low-moaning the inner voices of symphonies and string quartets, it is not good for much. Most of the time it merely plays pah to the cello's oom. Most of the people who pull horsehair bows over its goatgut strings are ex-violinists who failed to make the grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Viola and Primrose | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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