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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...may be wrong again, as usual, but from where I am sitting, it looks like the second world war will simmer down to a community argument between England, France and Germany, and may be over before we realize it. When the war is over and the soldiers return home, they will find a surplus of guns and ammunition and a shortage of food and clothes. When that time rolls around, don't you think it would be a good idea for Mr. Roosevelt to call his congressmen in and say: "Boys, we've spent several billions trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...TIME (Sept. 25) you admit being stumped as to an equitable solution to the European situation-given an Allied victory. Of course there is none. But with a German victory there can be a solution. You may not like to believe it, but it's the truth and to risk a banality-the truth hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...that has gone on continuously since that morning to this. Captain R. C. got his recall telegram and left, too. The next day was our village regatta on the river finishing with a burst of lovely fireworks on the river-the thud telling one as we watched, those explosions may be bombs and gun fire by next week . . . and they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...they may, no strength and no artifice will ever succeed in banishing from the human life the ills and troubles which beset it. If any, there are those who pretend differently-- who hold out to a hard pressed people freedom from pain and trouble, undisturbed repose and constant enjoyment--then cheat the people and impose upon them their lying promises only making the evil worse than before. The high debt of 40 billion for a nation of 130,000,000 inhabitants together with over 10,000,000 unemployed should be much more our common concern than the happenings in Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Free tickets must be secured in advance by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Open Nights, Harvard Observatory, Garden street, Cambridge. Each applicant may obtain seats at only one of the programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY SLATES TALKS | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

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