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Word: prompts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Purpose." The prompt retorts of London and Paris were as different as the personal characters of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Seven Years War? | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...rolling mills are of the continuous (mechanized assembly line) type, and even such mills were held down to the pace of old-fashioned brass foundries integrated with them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying U. S. raw copper for her own mills, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bottlenecks | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...American Farm Bureau Federation demanded prompt repeal of Neutrality Act embargo provisions, substitution of cash-&-carry basis, with profits restricted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Party? | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...find as many as eight or ten perforations, the entire operation should not take more than 20 minutes. If he neglects the exploration, his patient is almost certain to die from hemorrhage or peritonitis. (Patients suffering from hemorrhage should have an H marked on their foreheads.to insure prompt treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Wounds | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Lacerating wounds usually rip out huge chunks of a victim's body. "The only way to save the lives of most of these patients is prompt amputation." When they are partly eviscerated, as they often are, nothing much can be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Wounds | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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