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Word: muchly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easterners, of whom the President is the obvious leader, are equally convinced that the United States cannot remain isolated from the rest of the world, no matter how much it wants to. It is felt in the East that such a condition as the West would have is totally impossible,--the desire for what has not existed since the last century. The President feels that, whatever is sacrificed by mixing in world affairs, American interests are served only when such a plan is vigorously undertaken. Here is where the Easterners are sure thus they have a much more far-sighted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAST IS EAST AND . . . | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...work done by Morris in the Social Democratic Federation. Adopting an unpopular cause, he influenced many of his contemporaries although he won few disciples. Throughout his books there is strong practical middle class streak which keeps him from becoming a typical radical utopian and makes his doctrine a much more reasonable prediction of what has happened than Bellamy or his other contemporaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks Discusses Morris as Great Marxian Socialist | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...invention of machinery, which it may have eased the strain on the body, has placed much more on the mind of modern man who has to struggle to keep up with his radio, his newspaper, and his airplane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Illnesses in Student Body, Statistics of Dr. Bock Indicate | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...describes four months spent in Yenan, former headquarters of the Chinese Soviet Republic (now the "Frontier Districts of Shensi, Kansu and Ningsia") and the Red Army (now the Eighth Route Army). Written a year after her husband brought out his sensational account of the Chinese Soviets, her book duplicates much of the material in his, but is more personalized, has more to say about the women leaders who survived the epochal 6,000-mile "Long March" (when the Communists retreated in 1934 from South China to the Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ifs Over China | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Written in simple you-style by a certified public accountant, Your Income Tax treats the befuddled lower-bracket taxee very much as a psychiatrist would handle an alarmed patient. The 120 pages of text lay every bugaboo from Who-Must-File-a-Return to What-to-do-if-They-Get-After-You. You can hardly go wrong unintentionally. Author Lasser warns you sternly not to try it intentionally, then proceeds to list hundreds of legal exemptions and deductions that you may not have thought of before. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bugaboos Laid | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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