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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every Catholic is supposed to know that impotency is a complete "impediment" to Catholic marriage. A priest may raise the question if he sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...morning last week Coast Guardsmen stationed at Cape May, N. J. intercepted an SOS that shivered their timbers: "Any ship in neighborhood with guns on board . . . lion broken loose. ..." The sender was Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, steaming 90 miles off the coast with nine passengers, half a ton of gunpowder and some 14 wild animals which she was newcastling from New York zoos to a zoo in animal-ridden Venezuela. Her crew packed no firearms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lion Hunt | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...asked a nearby rifle range to lend him its No. 1 marksman, a marine sergeant named Michael Peskin. Few minutes later Marksman Peskin and six guardsmen armed with submachine guns and 30-calibre rifles piled into a picket boat, shoved off for the Amazone, hove to southeast of Cape May, and their first lion hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lion Hunt | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...back to peace, last week's crisis will also leave an indelible mark on the U. S. economy, forcing agriculture to recognize that its continental market is gone. The new German-Russian agreement ends hope of the U. S. regaining its lost German markets for cotton and foodstuffs, may mean that U. S. trade will be squeezed out of Central Europe altogether. Germany's new economic tie-up with Russia might enable her to reduce her 1938 purchases here ($107,588,000, down from an average of $400,364,000 in 1926-30) to zero. Perhaps more important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Come War, Come Peace | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...may take some of the profit out of Pepsi-Cola by boosting the price of sugar (considerably more of it goes into its double-sized bottle than into a bottle of Coca-Cola). But it will have to be a long war. Last month, with a year's supply on hand or under contract, Pepsi-Cola extended its war hedge, contracted for a full three-year supply. Meanwhile, there has been no indication that Loft's restaurant chain has ceased to lose money. But, with Loft stock selling as high as 16 5/8 even in last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT TRUSTS: Cola Coup | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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