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Word: quids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producers, but had thought TIME dry behind the ears. Now that you are off to a good start, dish up something worthy of record. As for the yarn in question, there are plenty of other farmers in Alaska who have taken the same rap without bothering to shift their quid to discuss it. And 35 below is practically corn-growing weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils the reek from Vandenberg's rhetoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...with belligerents, except that go-day credit supplanted the cash phrase. With this before them, Vandenberg and the Opposition groomed for the latest Battle of a Century of many battles. On strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco-quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils the reek from Vandenberg's rhetoric; constantly he saw Borah and McNary; constantly he smiled his Kewpie smile with the air of a cat set for cream. La Follette's crisp battle-slogan: "We'll fight this thing from Hell to breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...hope of every national person that a showdown between these opposing forces can be avoided that appeasement, granted by the democracies to the totalitarian states with the demand of a quid pro quo, can reestablish international order. The weapons for this accomplishment are economic. "There are many methods short of war, but stronger and more effective than words, of bringing home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our own people," the President significantly said Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORCE--AND REASON | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

...dream of an axis from "Berlin to Bagdad." In its relative size on the map of trouble this Nazi threat has its place. So have portions of Africa about which there may soon be attempted trading. *Obviously if Nazis will not trade, if experience shows a valid quid pro quo is impossible in the long run, then the Democracies, now rearming and able to rearm relatively faster than Germany and Italy, will have to fight the Second World War later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Price Peace? | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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