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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blistering Reichstag speech of the Führer in reply to Mr. Roosevelt is given. In effect, the White Book argues that if all the events of the last 20 years are taken as a whole, there can be no doubt that Germans and Germany have always been right. Nearest thing to a juicy revelation is the disclosure that shortly before the Führer and the late Polish Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski made their ten-year Peace Pact in 1934, the German Legation in Warsaw was advised by the Berlin Foreign Office that the Pact "in no sense includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Scholarly Work | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Belle of the ball was Vivien Leigh, who nearly everybody agreed looked right like Scarlett O'Hara. Darkly grinning Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Till last week, white-haired, pink-cheeked Porter Sargent was widely and amiably known as a rich, eccentric Bostonian who publishes the Handbook of Private Schools, whose salty annual prefaces on world affairs amuse many. Last week Mr. Sargent jumped right out of his scholastic skin. Reverting to Revolutionary New England form, Mr. Sargent attempted to flay the hide off British propaganda. If the U. S. people get into World War II, nobody can say that Porter Sargent did not warn them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sargent's Bulletins | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Although unemployment is a primary U. S. problem, finding the right job is an important secondary one. There is no official U. S. agency to chart job trends and steer youth into the most promising occupations. Last year two smart, jobless young men started an unofficial agency to do it. By last week, when they finished their first year, their enterprise had grossed $100,000 and they had become leading authorities on job hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Job Hunters | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City, Joseph Schoelling, riding on his bicycle, crashed into the rear of a parked car, looped up and over, landed right side up, astride his bicycle on the car roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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