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Word: lies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Economic Council, further showed his political bias in a news letter issued by the Council, April 3, 1939, which declared that "New Dealism is nothing but the American form of Communism." When Mr. Dies appears under such auspices, he gives us cause to wonder where his own loyalties lie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

From Russia's standpoint, the pact seemed at first a brilliant coup in the cynical game of power politics. It was expected that smart Joseph Stalin would lie low and let the Allies and the Germans fight it out to exhaustion, after which he would possibly pick up the pieces. But little by little, it began to appear that Comrade Stalin got something much more practical out of his deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man of the Year, 1939 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...usurper's official title is Reich Organization Director, Leader of the Labor Front; but as he moves towards No. 3, he becomes, more & more, spokesman of Nazi doctrine, utterer of slogans, salesman of ideas. The unfortunate pronunciation of his name is the same as of the English word "lie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Our Faith! | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Carnegie Institution of Washington is the biggest scientific empire under one management in the world.* Its expeditions study archeology in Mexico, terrestrial magnetism in Peru, anthropology in Java; but its eight major provinces lie in the U. S.: Mount Wilson Observatory, perched on a mountain top near Pasadena; its division of plant biology, with headquarters at Stanford University; its department of embryology at Baltimore; its department of genetics at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island; its geophysical laboratory and its department of terrestrial magnetism at Washington; its nutrition laboratory in Boston; its division of historical research, whose headquarters are in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Empire & Emperor | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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