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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Egan is quite right: "chairman" is applicable to either sex. That is why TIME used "chairlady," which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...sent this Riley man to Danzig without even consulting Parliament? "Signs of a serious set-back to the attempt to get Russia into the peace pact front have to be recorded today," Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye cabled the New York Times. He could scarcely have expected how momentously right and wrong he was to be proved in the next 48 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Nightmare | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Piccadilly Circus one day last week newsboys were heard crying: "Step right up and get it-TIME, the banned book!" Many Londoners stepped up, because, only a fortnight before, much had been made of the banning of TIME in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: TIME Ban | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...this gave venerable Dr. Vladimir Matchek, democratically minded Croatian peasant leader, 'a powerful but dangerous weapon in his battle for Croatian rights. Three weeks ago he announced that Croatia would ask for German protection rather than continue to submit to Serbian rule. When Yugoslavian Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch began negotiations, in the midst of Balkan alarms, Dr. Matchek took time out to say what he thought of the people he was dealing with. Said he: "We Croatians are wholeheartedly for an agreement, but if none is reached we'll be obliged to go our separate ways. If the Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Spororum | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...pale the old chap went, that poor old Mr. John, When sentries stood before the British Concession! He ground what teeth he had, and stripped right to the skin; That wasn't nice for him-ha! ha! in Tientsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Novel Nudist | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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