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Word: ja (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cruiser A | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...ja hear that? It's only the bum ones gets obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Buddy Fest | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...neck and filled his stomach with good food. His stein was always refilled several times. When he became fabulously rich a reporter asked him what was the secret of his success. George Ehret smiled vaguely and, with a big hand on the table, seemed to lose himself in memories. "Ja . . . ja. . . ." The reporter quoted him as saying "Good beer, good health." But George Ehret did not say that. Life was more than food and drink. In the evenings, perhaps, a game of dominoes. No better game. . . . About half-past nine a band was sure to come round. All the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ehret | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Lieber Augustine!) Just let me hold your hand (Ja!). Do, do, come and have a beer or tivo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Tonic for Sale | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

When his citizens petitioned to skate on the village swimming pool, he could not be so careless of political fortunes as to refuse them. Yet his father heart worried lest they drown. Heavily be pondered and then, with sudden decision, uttered an official "Ja". It may be that no skater ventured until the next day. At any rate, not until that time were the Mayor's fears substantiated. While then, instead of a splash, came a queer thud for the Mayor had drained the pond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HOLLOW ANSWER | 1/6/1926 | See Source »

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