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Word: reade (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some time ago I read that the Rumanian Government had to issue new postage stamps because of an international ruling requiring all nations to print the name of their country on their stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: A. M. A. Attitude | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...marched 40 newshawks who had been waiting in an adjoining room. By cable from London and Paris they had heard minutes before that the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury had an important announcement to make in Washington. Mr. Morgenthau began to read from a paper: "By authority of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Gentlemen's Agreement | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...Finance Minister then read from a separate sheet a statement of what the Blum Cabinet would ask the Chamber and Senate to do with the franc, namely reduce its gold content from that of 65½ milligrams of nine-tenths fineness to a value controlled between 49 and 43 milligrams by a French Treasury stabilization fund of 10,000,000,000 francs in conjunction with the U. S. Treasury and the British Exchequer. In plain English the tourist who has been getting about 15½ francs for his dollar in Paris will get about 21½ francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fallacy or Victory? | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Pulling at their old-and-mild in the local pub last week, Norfolk yokels guffawed with native pride as they read in London's Sunday Referee all about their 103-year-old pal George Skeet, "Britain's most wonderful father." A lad of 25 in 1858, George took a wife, who bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Wonderful | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...Tried to duplicate the experiments in telepathy and clairvoyance of Duke University's Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine, who in a great number of carefully controlled laboratory tests has apparently demonstrated that ordinary people can learn to "read" an unseen pack of cards much better than could be explained by chance (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). In this endeavor Mr. Price reported no success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghost-Hunter | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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