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Word: pasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admit-in fact I protest-the "rumpled pants"! I've seen him nearly every day for the past three weeks . . . and not once with "rumpled pants." However, I am told he might have had "rumpled pants" one day, for during a downpour he took off his topcoat to put it around a young woman who had none. Perhaps that was the day. And for that act of chivalry you have publicly proclaimed him a wearer of "rumpled pants"! Tough on Ted 'cause it isn't true. He's most particular about his clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...this happened on Sept. 1 and we have been here a month on Friday. It seems like years, & that other life of privacy belongs to the past, but it will come again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...only come through surrender in some measure by the nations of their sovereign rights, in order to clear the way for some more organic union. But if it is our hope to create a more truly international system out of independent States, we must learn the lessons of the past. No paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair the harm done by the good. When this war is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Paper Plan | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...colleagues* in the highest honor a scientist can receive, is idolized by the men who work with him. When he heard the news, his first thought was of them: "It goes without saying that it is the laboratory that is honored. I share this honor with my coworkers, past and present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cookies from Stockholm | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Owner and publisher of La Prensa is Don Ezequiel P. Paz, son of the late Dr. José C. Paz, who founded the paper in 1869. (Argentina's oldest newspaper is the English-language Buenos Aires Standard, founded 1861.) Now past 65, childless Don Ezequiel leaves the active management of La Prensa to a nephew, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. Until this year Don Ezequiel spent his winters at a French estate near Biarritz. For the sake of his diet he always carried with him a cow, sacrificed her as his ship entered the Rio de la Plata because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Latins Honored | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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