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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Chinese, was the return to Nanking of the Soviet Ambassador and Military Attache. They recently flew by special chartered plane to Moscow, and Nanking last week hoped for "action" from the Soviet Union, feared the U. S. might hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China are not by any means the flower of the Mikado's legions, kept whistling loudly thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Double-Ten | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Their defense was brutally simple. They were flyers of the Red Army, had embarked on a Soviet ship at Odessa "under orders," not knowing where they were being sent or for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Reprieve | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

From electric chairs in Eliot House to red and green monsters that mow the hardy grass of the Yard, it is apparent that Harvard is producing more and more devices and inventions calculated to make life either simple or complex, according to the point of view of the gullible layman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Current Inventive Urge Overwhelms Instructor in Fine Arts Department | 10/16/1937 | See Source »

Outside the machine are 17 switches and three transformers, which are really dimmers. In the midst of the switches and numerous wires and plugs stands Mr. Scott. A flick of his fingers makes the box a livid red, a brilliant blue, a glaring yellow, an emerald green. He can turn on the three primary colors (remember your physics?) at once and produce nothing but white light with the combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Current Inventive Urge Overwhelms Instructor in Fine Arts Department | 10/16/1937 | See Source »

...opposite pole from timid Freshmen are scornful upperclassmen who are "too busy" for a chat, or who refuse to go through "all that red tape." This is nonsense, or at least an exaggeration. Deans are busy men with little time for idle gossip or banter, but they are certainly far from aloof. Rumor to the contrary, a puzzled or worried student can still obtain an appointment quite as readily and quickly at University Hall as he could with any active business or professional man. Few persons would choose to sit in their rooms and worry about an exam when adequate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WELCOME MAT IS OUT | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

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