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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guaranteed for 25 years) was to be partitioned at once between Hungary and the Third Reich. Poles, keeping a sharp eye on Nazi troops, saw only a flanking threat to Poland in the move, believed that probably Germans were simply fortifying their strategic position (as they have a right to by treaty) for future haggling over Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Czech Jitters | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Today, newspapermen look to Philadelphia for excitement and sometimes jobs. J. David Stern is now its senior publisher. It now has only four papers (not counting the pipsqueak tabloid News) and they are engaged in a bitter struggle for survival. Reading from Left to Right, Philadelphia's papers are the morning Record and Inquirer, the evening Ledger and Bulletin. All were making news last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Story | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...passengers, the mobster and the jailer, and beat war drums for the rest. When the patched-up plane is finally ready for a takeoff, only enough gas is left to carry four, and the boy. The anarchist pulls a gun, takes the law into his own hands, watches the right five safely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

This week NBC hoped it had hit upon the right medicine-Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, a 70-man band of glittering trumpetry, up-to-date stomp and freestyle, everybody-sing chorusing. Main reason that Fred Waring is considered a likely antidote to Amos 'n' Andy is that his orchestra has always played to the whole crowd, has never gone too hot or too sweet for catholic tastes. Says Fred: "If anything looks good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fred Waring, Inc. | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Anna O. was an intelligent girl of 21, who, while nursing her father during a fatal illness, suddenly developed paralysis of her right arm and both legs. To Dr. Breuer's amazement, when he asked her questions under hypnosis, she explained to him the origin of her symptoms, one by one. While nursing her father, she had suppressed a swarm of impulses as frivolous, selfish or immoral. And each suppressed desire had somehow turned into a physical symptom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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