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Word: notted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the Colonel will not be entirely without influence in the Army, even though he no longer belongs to it, was suggested by the choice of his successor. Jose Pedraza was also a sergeant when Sergeant Batista headed the non-commissioned officers' revolt which ended the rule of onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batista Ballyhoo | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Alexander the Great was tickled by the philosopher's request, but it did not keep him from spending the rest of his short life elbowing others out of the best place in the sun. His romantic ambition drove him, leading victorious armies, from Macedonia up to the turgid Danube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Two millenniums and a quarter later, last week, Adolf Hitler's newspaper Völkischer Beobachter drew a fanciful parallel: Joseph Stalin with Alexander the Great. No two men could be less alike. Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Völkischer Beobachter was actually indulging in wishful thinking. Joseph Stalin, Friend of Peace, had metamorphosed into Joseph Stalin, Aggressor. And unfortunately his aggression was taking great bites out of German spheres of ambition. Would it not be better, suggested the newspaper, if, like Alexander, Joseph Stalin buckled on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Next day came an apparent answer to Völkischer Beobachter's prayer. In Moscow Communist International,official organ of the Communist Party, warned Rumania that she had better conclude an immediate pact with Russia, similar to those granted by the Baltic States and refused by unlucky Finland, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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