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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then many things have happened every day that also tickle me. Every time I see a friend I am invited to show the spank marks, in many Public Places. Corporations and individuals, mighty nice folks have been worried about me. And I have looked around for spank marks but I can only find old welts and busted places that have occured in the general course of my business when I have guessed wrong or moved too slow. A young boy called up from Oklahoma City-and wants to break in roughnecking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Foreign Minister back in Berlin before Nazi officials began to taunt newsmen with hints of impending "big doings." A Rumanian Army mission mysteriously turned up in Berlin, and reports came out that Adolf Hitler had offered to lend his "good offices" in persuading Russia and Hungary to be nice-not to invade King Carol Il's domain. For these good offices, the Führer "hoped" that Rumania would: 1) demobilize half her Army; 2) give the Nazis a monopoly on oil and grain exports; 3) admit a pro-Nazi Iron Guard into the Rumanian Cabinet to "safeguard German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMATIC FRONT: Brenner Pass Parley | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...last week Yakichiro Suma, the positive little spokesman of Japan's Foreign Office, told newspapermen that relations with Russia were very nice, thank you. "For the moment," he admitted, "a non-aggression pact is not a part of our program." Two days later Russia and Japan were on the verge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-RUSSIA: Sakhalin Island Skirmish | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Moffatt, who believes that "the more the Bible is human, the more its divinity is evidenced," let General Mills' Adam & Eve sound as human as Betty & Bob. Living, after the Fall, in a "nice, comfortable hut" which Adam has built, Eve recalls the birth of Cain: "The pain lasted all that night . . . and I lay there in the cave . . . listening to the wind. . . . Finally ... I cried out to you. ... I said I couldn't bear the pain any longer . . . and . . . you ran outside. I thought I'd never see you again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Light Of The World | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...gross sales. It has twelve competitors, but is undisputed No. 1 U. S. earth-scraper manufacturer, makes over half of such equipment, from heavy rooters that will rip up anything but solid rock to one-man, self-propelling Carryall scrapers that will "dig a nice trench." It also has a company union. There are 50 basic LeTourneau patents, but the chief reason for the company's phenomenal success is the power control unit designed by Founder LeTourneau when he went home from revival meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Piety & Profits | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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