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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertaining the Foreign Minister of one of the axis powers, looked not unfavorably upon riots against the other power in the hope that they might persuade Britain and France that Poland is still worth lending money to. While few of Europe's statesmen like Colonel Beck and absolutely none trust him, no seasoned diplomat of Europe's hard-boiled chancelleries can fail to admire him. In his own way, he does his job superbly well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Guardian | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Prospectors among the eucalyptus and olive groves of San Francisco's flowering little World's Fair last week struck gold at three points. All three were ambitious installation jobs; none had been completed for the opening, fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nuggets | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman have always turned up their noses at the name "Buchmanite," much prefer to be called the Oxford Group-a designation which suggests that Buchmanism is somehow connected with Oxford University, or at least related to the Oxford Movement of a century ago. Until lately, however, none of the Group's critics was able to do anything about this flourishing misrepresentation. Then Dr. Buchman himself stuck his neck out of his well-tailored shell. In London he applied to the Board of Trade for incorporation of the Oxford Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oxford v. Group | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Three years ago the five big U. S. airlines chipped in towards development of the ship, agreed to buy none like it for 18 months. Since then T. W. A. and Pan American have ordered Boeing four-motored 307's and other lines appear to have cooled in their enthusiasm for the biggest Douglas, reputedly because of high operation costs. Last week United Air Lines' crack Pilot Benny Howard was at Santa Monica getting acquainted with the DC-4, intended at week's end to take it out on U. A. L.'s system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: High-wing | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Among the world's lost causes, none was more fantastic than the Children's Crusade. The least glorious pilgrimage in religious history, it has been mostly lost to literature as well. The exception is that macabre legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, invented by satirical 13th Century peasants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moppets' Crusade | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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