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Word: pastes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the whole broad earth, as the meaning of the swift drive through Poland became clearer, the nations seemed to be withdrawing into themselves like coiling springs wound ever more tightly. With its daily and hourly revelations of deficiencies, allegiances, loyalties, its drastic breaks with the past, with traditions and plans, with cherished projects, World War II assumed a magnitude at its beginning that World War I did not assume until its end. But it was a different kind of war-a war of diplomatic assaults and economic raids, in which the troops of aggressive nations only moved upon nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Power | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Hammer and Secretary Steel watched their friends approaching. To the rest of the world the race-rout through Poland looked like a bloody blur. To Poles it was just bloody. But to Russians it was coming closer all the time. Over the plains, around the swamps, through the cities, past Cracow, Lwow, Brest-Litovsk, into Galicia, down to the Polish Ukraine, hurried the approaching friends, grabbing the industrial region and the coal mines in passing, looking as big and as powerful as an express train seems to a motorist stalled in the middle of the track. Hammer and Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dizziness From Success | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...this indicated that the course was clearly charted. Avoid Scylla, the Russian Army, and Charybdis, the U. S. Fleet, and sail straight through to victory in China. Big news of the week was getting past Scylla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ORIENT: Truce was a Truce | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...this number, a standard size for the past ten Freshman classes, approximately 900 will be newcomers, while dropped and provisional Freshmen will make up the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thousand Freshmen Will Sign Names Today in Memorial Hall, Attend Talk By President Conant in Union Tonight | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

Although Radcliffe girls have lagged in Yard popularity in past years, it is rumored that there is an up-and-coming bunch of hard-drinking, intellectual young buds easily obtainable in the Shepard Street district...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley, Radcliffe Wait For Class of '43 With Open Arms | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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