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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were treated to a ceremonial tour around the historic old city. Then they sat down to arrange details whereby 800,000 Ukrainians and White Russians in German-occupied territory would be handed over to the "Bolshevistic terror" in exchange for 100,000 Germans in Russian-occupied Poland who would return to the Nazi homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pale Phantoms | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...return to Paris last week from the Near East of General Maxime Weygand, to report on his preparations for an Allied Army there, added interest to the commentary. With Finland getting hers from Russia, and with Rumania apparently earmarked next, it was newsworthy bluff, if not noteworthy fact, when Generalissimo Gamelin said he feels free now for a war of maneuver-somewhere. His High Command made further show of this free feeling by sending home 3,000 of 27,000 civilian doctors who were mobilized for service in the West. Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Boast & Threat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...captain and made a rapid report in Arabic." His patrol had grenaded a German patrol. About midnight a rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge. " 'Ah,' said the French officer, 'you see, the Boches are mad. One of their patrols did not return on schedule, so they are showing the way home. It is probably the group with the wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Silent Shushan. What got the Item in trouble last week was a case that opened in Louisiana's Federal court against Abraham Lazard Shushan (who once backed Huey Long financially, in return got his name on New Orleans' palatial Shushan Airport) and four other defendants accused by the Government of using the mails to defraud. According to the grand jury's indictment, they shared a fee of $496,000 on a false claim that they had saved the Orleans Levee Board $2,000,000 in a bond-refunding operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contemptuous Item | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...third time in four games the Crimson basketball team went down to defeat last night before a five that was just too good, losing to Wesleyan by a 53 to 37 score. This evening they return to the home floor to meet Boston University, who will be opening their season with the game...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: WESLEYAN TAKES 53-37 VICTORY FROM QUINTET | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

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