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Word: isolationized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Seeing what I saw out there was an eye-opener for anyone who had watched a generation grow up in pacifist isolation" is the nearest he came to putting it in words. "Neither Americans nor any other people pay the ultimate sacrifice by diving their planes into aircraft carriers unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Deepest of Tsahai's home contentments was the escape from the rigid isolation of the pink-skinned world: from teachers who taught her Christian precepts, but professed no sisterly love; from girls who smiled at her with their thin buttonhole lips, as across a chasm; from visitors whose English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Sheba's Child | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

December 7: The First 30 Hours (Knopf; $2) is the first attempt to draw together in a single volume a nationwide reaction to a major historical event. Written in a little over 30 hours by 50 journalists-"50 working reporters called from golf courses and football games, from unfinished mid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the People Said | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Aliens Entirely. But Ireland took its revenge on the alien Bowens. It was a revenge as formless and pervasive as a fog from the bogs. In their isolation the Bowens fell to fighting each other like spiders in a bottle. They fought about careers, buried treasure, inheritances, but mostly about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline of the Squireens | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Isolation has increased the importance of industrial cooperatives. In June the Government voted to raise their capitalization to a hundred million Chinese dollars, and adopted the slogan: "Membership doubled, production tripled within six months." Over 5,000 skilled laborers who escaped from Hong Kong will help speed production.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sixth Year Begins | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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