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Word: put (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economic Affairs, was the plan that Germany pay the costs, Czechoslovakia do the work. Virtually certain of adoption, this plan would complete the economic subjugation of Czechoslovakia, insure Germany doubly against a trade blockade in the future, and, by thus binding ancient Bohemia all round with Reich boundaries, put the final proof to Bismarck's theory that whoever rules Bohemia is master of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Charlemagne to Adolf | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Since early this year all but one of the 15 Dollar liners, all named after U. S. Presidents, have gone out of service. As one by one they are put back in commission each will trade in its $$ for eagles. This change signifies: 1) the passing of the once mighty Dollar line from the high seas, and 2) the entrance of the U. S. Maritime Commission into bigtime shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Eagles for $$ | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...gushed the other day: "He was so charming that I forgot to be frightened. ... It was quite the most impressive experience I've had, and had it not been for that great personality, I would have been scared to death! He sat up behind his big desk and put every person instantly at ease. He answered questions good-naturedly and quickly-I wonder if there's a question in the world that would make him 'hem and haw.' . . He had on a dark blue suit with a very faint stripe, a white shirt and a dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Evie's Apples | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...school of biff-plop-ratatat-tat cartooning was coming up fast. Today even spry old Foxy would be hard put to it to dodge the machine gun slugs and interplanetary rockets that whiz through the "comic" strips of the Thirties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grandpa's Pa | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...York Herald. As the money Foxy earned dwindled, Cartoonist Schultze moved down the scale of Manhattan rooming houses, drew gym class posters for the Y. M. C. A., passed out little pictures of Foxy to neighborhood kids. Several years ago he went on relief, for a time was put to work interviewing job applicants at an employment agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grandpa's Pa | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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