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Word: reasoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jack Lewis said last night that the only reason Hamilton won was because of the presence in its lineup of Bennet Forbes, last year's Varsity Polo captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BICYCLE POLO GROUP IS OVERCOME BY HAMILTON | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

When Congressman Jacob Thorkelson, 63, a doctor from Butte, Mont., took his seat in the House last January, he was hailed heartily. Reason : he took the place of unpopular, left-wing Jerry J. O'Connell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Comes the Revolution | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...British Foreign Office was highly skeptical of the rumor, but later, when Sir Alfred Knox asked in the House of Commons whether the Government was aware of the report, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler replied: "Yes, sir, and my noble friend [Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax] has reason to believe that this report is not without foundation." If the Soviet Union was going to give Germany the wherewithal to buy raw materials abroad, possibly in fee simple for hands off in the East Baltic, the blockading British had something to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow Gold | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...German are his inability either to see any side of a question except his own, or to understand the meaning of moderation. . . . Herr Hitler could see no mean between rendering the Czechs innocuous as a potential enemy and destroying their liberty as an independent people. There is some surprising reason to believe that Herr Hitler himself was disagreeably and literally astonished at the reaction in Britain and the world generally, which was provoked by the occupation of Prague and his breach of faith with Mr. Chamberlain. But while he may have realised his tactical mistake, it did not deter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Last week U. S. papers were once more on sale at London newsstands. But wartime regulations and wartime inflation had sent prices soaring. A Sunday edition that cost 10? in Manhattan sold in London for as much as 2/6 (about 50? at current exchange rates). Reason: no alien periodical could enter Great Britain without special permission from the War Office, except in single copies through the mail. And the increase in postage that newsstands had to pay was aggravated by the rising price of the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Price U. S. Papers? | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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