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Word: previously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact remains that the story is contrary to every fact. ... I am calling this to the attention of the public because it represents a culmination of other false news stories to which the attention of the United Press has been called by me and by my office on previous occasions. . . . This latest episode . . . represents the limit of any decent person's patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President & Press | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Previous-lightning measurement has relied mainly on the oscillograph, which records the changing intensity of a bolt by means of an oscillating electron beam playing on photographic film. The fulchronograph is not only cheaper to use, says Westinghouse, but furnishes a clearer lightning picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Lightning, For Generators | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Power Politics. Should Congress shut up shop and go home without passing any new neutrality legislation this summer, the previous legislation-minus "cash & carry"-will still stand. If the fight over neutrality laws is too long and too futile, a growing disgust may lead Congress and the people to wash their hands of the whole business and fall back on old-fashioned international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED STATES: How to be Neutral | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...romance in which Dik-Dik tends a poor author's baby, breaks up Mole's engagement to a rich Irish girl, ages two years in time, ten years in feminine finesse. John Barry Benefield's new novel is cut to the same master pattern as his previous successes (The Chicken-Wagon Family, about 50,000 copies; Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, over 75,000 copies). Like them, it should please readers willing to "enter upon a surprising and beautiful adventure" wherein dream girls are "spirited, but with moderation, in the classic way." Like his hero, Mole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girl Meets Mole | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Next day it appeared that Miss Mercer also had previous entanglements. Pullman Porter Carson Clarence Rollins Jr. popped up and casually informed newsmen that he had married her in Stroudsburg, Pa. in 1931.* But he was indulgent about it, observing: "Imagine my surprise on learning that my wife was about to become a Princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH WEST AFRICA: Cinderella | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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