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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictators, marching behind a German band. Some wore brown shirts, for Hitler; some black shirts, for Mussolini; some red shirts, for Stalin, and some the white shirt, white ducks and panama of Fisherman Roosevelt. They raised beer cans in a fascist salute. Said their placards: Frankie is just a lot of Frankfurter, Beware of Third Termites, When bigger and better dictators are made, he'll be a Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Barbed Confetti | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...terrorism, a barbed wire barrier to keep out terrorists is being strung along the entire Palestine frontier at a cost of $450,000. This includes a nine-foot barbed wire fence between Palestine and French-mandated Lebanon and Syria, which border Palestine on the north and northeast. A lot of Palestine's tougher Arabs come from those two mandates. The fence will be completed in August, announced Sir John. Almost as he spoke, a band of Arab terrorists swooped down on a section of the fence, dubbed Tegart's Wall, ripped it up and carted it across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tegart's Wall | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia (1919-30), who borrowed heavily to build roads, improve sanitation and ease the lot of Peru's predominantly Indian population. Wide-girthed President Oscar Raimundo Benavides has continued this program with increased road building, industrial development, compulsory social insurance, severance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR-PERU: Second Chaco? | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Wood has worked long and usefully at science, he has also had a lot of fun out of it-to an extent that makes him a unique character among U. S. physicists. Once he proved that the moon was not made out of green cheese-by obtaining a spectrographic analysis of a piece of green cheese and comparing it with one of the moon. He has always had a passion for making apparatus out of any odd piece of junk that came to hand. On one occasion he made a telescope mounting out of an old bicycle. On another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prince | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...publishing firm. A really wonderful product. Editor 60 years old would like to groom successor. Stands the closest, scrutiny. Takes a lot of money but looks worth it. $25,000 to $50,000 needed. (That may be a lot of money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matchless, Opportunities for Employment Are Offered to Seniors With a Few Extra Thousand | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

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