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Word: lives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were piled high with presents. Peasants sent their native handiwork. Westphalian women knitted 6,000 pairs of socks for the Fiihrer's soldiers. Housewives got together to bake a six-foot cake. From the more militarily minded came pistols, hand grenades, an assortment of knives and daggers, a live eagle which the Führer will release in the Bavarian Mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Aggrandizer's Anniversary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...child and within a year the entrance into Parliament of a young Welshman-the son of a teacher in Pwllheli, the husband of a woman from Mynyddednyfed. The young parliamentarian burned with liberal zeal to make the capitalistic society of his day a better place to live in; in the last six years the Austrian has undermined the foundations of that society. Last week, within 48 hours of each other, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday and David Lloyd George began his soth year in Parliament. In their respective countries, Adolf Hitler had nothing but praise, old Lloyd George merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Welshman's 50th | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...problems which have occupied modern architects, the most unpretentious is the most difficult: how to give urban people decent places to live. In the U. S., the Federal Housing Administration has given great impetus to individual home builders, stimulating architects to think in terms of small-house design. Newly available to them and the public last week were two important sources of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brass Tacks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...temperance league, can't buy it publicly) to keep him contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better to be killed by a man than to live without one." The police, on a house-to-house search for the robber of the liquor store, frighten the innocent tramp, and he flees in the old maid's car, taking her maid and most of her silverware with him. Moral: "A woman can do what the Devil himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Radio Opera | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...physical trim. He diets, neither drinks nor smokes, rides a lot. He has a country place at Roslyn, L. I., a town house at 48 Washington Mews-an alley off Fifth Avenue near Washington Square where Manhattan rich used to stable their horses and now like to live themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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