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Word: rateness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably few national leaders have been so misunderstood and so tragically underestimated. The French regarded the man who was to relegate them to a second-rate continental power as a funny man with a Charlie Chaplin mustache. They soon learned better. Others thought the Führer often acted from vanity, wrath and petulance, whereas nothing has become more evident than that he has followed a straight line of policy. He has long been pictured as emotionally unbalanced, but probably few men in public life have their emotions so completely under control. The man who in six short years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Aggrandizer's Anniversary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Admission to a restricted Vic-Dance in the Lowell House Common Room this Saturday night will be at the rate of one-half cent per pound of weight of female companion, Irving Clark, Jr. '41, chairman, announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...City Tutoring School and the Rosenbaum School divide the tutoring business of Yale about evenly. Together they tutor about 900 yearly, with the price of reviews being considerably higher than the established rate in Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring Problem at Princeton, Yale Found Small Compared to Harvard's | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...more cause of friction is personal dislike between the House of Savoy and the Ciano family. II Duce's favorite daughter, Countess Edda Ciano, does not even rate as a royal lady in waiting, is ignored by Queen Elena. Moreover, it was Count Galeazzo Ciano and the scheming Edda who were personally active in bringing Italy into the German alliance, and who have since been working for a social revolution in Italy along the lines of the Nazi one in Germany. Before Adolf Hitler came into power, Benito Mussolini was willing to let things in Italy go on pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King's Crisis | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...most jockeys. Until four years ago the nearest he came to a horse was the shanks' mare on which he used to deliver groceries for his father's little emporium in Aurora, Ill. When Father Oros decided to trade his grocery store for a stable of third-rate thoroughbreds, Johnny learned to ride a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Aurora Flash | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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