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Word: planing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best news, even better than President Roosevelt's Chicago speech, in the opinion of many Chinese, was the return to Nanking of the Soviet Ambassador and Military Attache. They recently flew by special chartered plane to Moscow, and Nanking last week hoped for "action" from the Soviet Union, feared the U. S. might hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Double-Ten | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...sheriffs for Dr. Senise trying to attach Mr. Roach's bank account he gloomed: "I can't say if a picture will ever be made under my partnership with Mussolini, but the partnership has not been dissolved." By this time Son Vittorio was en route by sleeper-plane to Washington, obviously aware that a Fascist has about as much chance to succeed in Hollywood as a Zionist producer would enjoy in Mecca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sons & Bombers | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...written it thus: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway . . ., there was a rending crack! whop! smash! as the ship slammed full tilt into a pine power pole, as the motors ripped out and fell and the rest of the plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...classes will last from 30 to 50 minutes, and through workout is guaranteed to all participants. That the men may breeze through the exercises more rhythmically, plane accompaniment will be furnished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO GYM CLASSES OPEN TO ALL WILL START ON MONDAY | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

...vicinity of the Phoenix Islands. But the searchers had a couple of exciting moments. Once, said Chase, we thought we saw a light on the horizon, but it turned out to be heat lightning. Again, we really did see a light on the horizon, but it was no plane, merely, Venus putting in a 2 A.M. appearance...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Heat Lightning, Venus, but No Planes, Seen In ROTC Search | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

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