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Word: qui (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubborn Josef Stalin was still trying to avoid last week the mistake that crippled Imperial Russia?war with Japan. But events darkly occurring in Manchuria kept all the Russias on the qui vive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHURIA: Reds, War & Mongols | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...gave orders for the expulsion of all Chinese from his province by Sept. 5. The adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Vamos! | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...exactly resembled all the other forks at table, was of solid silver, engraved with an ornate crest supported between a lion and a unicorn rampant. It bore the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Sir E. Ovey's Fork | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Audite haec omnes gentes, auribus percipite omnes qui habitatis orbem, simul in unum dives et pauper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Station HVJ | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...scale." Corroborates Biographer West: "The gossip flourished, but no story of meanness or betrayal has ever faced the light. No story has ever faced the light. There is no story that cannot face the light. The paper of his study at Easton Glebe bore the garter and Honi soit qui mal y pense. That states his case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairly Open Conspirator* | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

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