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Word: rangely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witty, never one to take to the streets for demonstration, this tired, stoop-shouldered veteran perhaps hoped he could save his job on the basis of past deeds for the Third Republic. At World War I's start M. Cachin, Left-wing Socialist editor of Humanité, rang the bells for patriotism, called Kaiser Wilhelm II "that mad dog." An expert on Italian radical movements, he later encouraged Editor Benito Mussolini, of Milan's Socialist journal Popolo d'ltalia, to plug hard for Italy's entry into the war on France's side. To Editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Palace Doors | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Brill's recently reconnected telephone rang incessantly all morning with pleas from ardent suitresses asking "Lewellyn darling" to tear himself away from his study of Elizabethan music for a few hours in the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe, Wellesley Maidens Hunt Men in Leap Year Rites | 3/1/1940 | See Source »

Same day the Turkish press rang with accusations that Germany was trying to push Russia into offensive action in southeastern Europe. Discussing Russia's building of fortifications in the Caucasus, on the other side of the Russo-Turkish frontier, Istanbul's Ikdam warned: "War between the Soviets and the British-French Allies might lead to exhaustion of the belligerents. Then Germany could open an offensive on her tired enemies and impose her peace-with Russia paying the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Prepare for the Unexpected | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Last week Professor Morison & party were safe in Manhattan after a five-month, 10,000-mile cruise that vindicated the Admiral all the way, and delivered a hard blow at the debunkers' view of history. And at each point they found that Columbus' account rang true. Columbus had noted that as he approached the Azores the seaweed turned brown, disappeared a day before he reached port. So found Professor Morison & party 447 years later. They saw on Corvo Island in the Azores the fantastic rock formation that Columbus had seen through fog and mist and which seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rediscovery | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...castings, one of ordinary steel, one of K-42-B, were heated red-hot in a furnace. When the red-hot steel bell was struck with a hammer, it was too soft to respond with anything but a thud. But the red-hot K-42-B bell, when struck, rang out clearly, like a church bell on a sparkling winter day. The Westinghouse people call this exhibit "Hell's Bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Westinghouse | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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