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Word: parently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deploring "taking a year out of a boy's life" as one parent complained, patriotically to serve his country, is plain drivel. If it takes out only a year of five years everyone will be extremely lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...police nor FBI, but the 200 operatives of the little Secret Service, whose other job is guarding the President & family, hunt counterfeiters in the U. S. Last week its parent department, the U. S. Treasury, announced that the S. S. had gone far toward cleaning them out. An educational campaign directed by hamhanded, sharp-nosed Frank John Wilson, S. S. Chief, has shown thousands of merchants how to distinguish the uneven engraving and threadless paper of counterfeit bills. An 18-minute movie named "Dan gerous Dollars" produced by the S. S., also telecast and made into a Paramount short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENCY: Funny Money | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Less numerous (500,000 to 1,000,000), but far more influential and vociferous, are the Germans. Cultural infiltration by Naziism has been carefully planned, is systematically carried out. Schools get textbooks, funds and teachers from Germany. Nazi organizations are affiliated with parent bodies in Germany. A German-controlled news agency provides radioed news from the Fatherland via teletype at a nominal charge. German radio broadcasts come in clear while U. S. programs are blotted out. Cinema houses get German entertainment and propaganda films and even radioed war photographs free. There are 15 German-language news papers in Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Awake at Last | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...thing, you know." Calculated to cultivate a more essential poise is Ogontz' popular course on babies, held in "Lares," a completely furnished model home. Each fall, the girls study, coddle and raise a two-month-old foundling until Easter, when it goes back to its mother or foster parent. Last year's baby was Betty Jones, whom the girls dubbed "Betty Jogontz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Maidens in Uniform | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...four and a half years on the air, the CBS Gang Busters stood off many an attack. When parent-teacher associations complained that their re-enactment of underworld derring-do was bad stuff for children, Gang Busters pointed out that the little ones couldn't learn too early that crime does not pay. When Probation Officer Frank Xavier Reller of St. Louis denounced the program for inspiring juveniles to concoct all kinds of deviltry, Gang Busters boasted that over a hundred mobsters had been brought to justice through aerial tips that they supplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Exit Shooting | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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