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Word: peters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bade farewell to the departing Swiss Minister, popular Marc Peter, and welcomed the incoming Swiss Minister, handsome, mustachioed Karl Bruggmann, not forgetting to say a good word about the long and honorable course of Swiss democracy and the health and good-will of U. S.-Swiss relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To the Finland Station | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Stampa of Turin: "German domination gave in only after hard fighting to the victorious Russian advance of Peter the Great's armies, without, however, being completely eliminated. . . . The Germans [now] leave behind them habits of culture which can be eradicated only by violent substitution of another regime, such as the Bolshevik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Retreat of the West | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Author Asch calls Judas "Judah IshKiriot," as he calls others by their Hebrew names: Rabbi Yeshua ben Joseph (Jesus), Miriam of Migdal (Mary Magdalene), Simon bar Jonah (Peter). It is Author Asch's thesis (as it has been of some Christian scholars) that Judas was so impatient for the salvation of mankind-"My soul is famished for the redemption," he said-that he betrayed Jesus to hurry the inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nazarene | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...that St. Peter, or the Devil (as the case may be), can't give Alexander Dumas a short vacation from his Life Eternal, just long enough for him to drop in at the University and see what United Artists have done with his adventure story, "The Man with the Iron Mask." He would be well-pleased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

First to be enrolled in the District of Columbia's drive was 90-year-old Mrs. Peter Voorhees Degraw, only living founder, onetime aide to Clara Barton, organizer of the American Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Hungry and Naked | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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