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Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week's [TIME, July 11] make-up (technical term unknown) was most pleasing. Delighted with the elimination of Religion. Being a person of no discrimination, I read from cover to cover and always waded painfully with boredom & bewilderment, thru Religion. The relief of not having to read it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Father of Seattle's late Thane Summers is Lane Summers, well-to-do, publicity-shunning maritime lawyer, whose prime clients include such companies as the Grace and Matson steamship lines, Union Pacific R.R. Co. Instead of pleasing him, the posters stirred him to anger. He publicly announced:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Patriotic Chore | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Statesmen Daladier and Chamberlain are also shopping for Turkey as an ally of Democracy. London reported last week the imminent prospect of a formal military alliance between His Majesty's Government and that of Dictator Kamal Atatürk, a hard-drinking but clear-headed Asiatic general who was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Golden Bullets | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Less pleasing news about wheat was carried to the White House. The Secretary informed the President that so big a wheat crop is coming up that the U. S. Treasury must lend growers perhaps as much as $100,000,000 to carry over their surplus. The Adjustment Act requires loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: White & Red | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Since April, Premier Edouard Daladier has ruled France in a manner more pleasing to the French Right than that of the preceding Popular Front cabinets. A Radical Socialist, for two uninterrupted years Minister of National Defense, M. Daladier's strong inclinations to please the Right have often conflicted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tough | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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