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Word: room (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were to be a peace by negotiation, where would the principals meet? Presumably some neutral country would supply the hotel room and presumably it would best be accomplished by doing the negotiating quietly and then springing the deal. Who would the principals be? Not Hitler, not Daladier, not Chamberlain. They could not meet anywhere obscurely, for one thing, and the Munich aura hangs too heavily over their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planless Peace | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...presence of an airplane. But a cruiser might have launched it. Fishiest point of all was the 25 shots she was said to have fired. One shot from the Admiral Scheer's secondary battery of 5.9-inch guns could have put a hole as big as a room in the Clement; and one from her 11-inchers a hole as big as a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Old Game | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

After a hard morning in the class-room, the booth-dwellers return to their habitat feeling at case with the familiar wooden support behind them. No true "jellier" ever sits at a table in the middle of the floor, only booths give him that protected feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

...These artists, it happens, can play beautifully in a room, but still they have not achieved fame," he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fritz Kreisler Explains Difference of Successful Violinist from Great Artist | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

Luis Sort, leading modern architect and town planner of Spain, and Vice President of the Congres Internationaux de I'Architecture Moderne, will give a public lecture on "Can Our Cities Survive?", Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, in the lecture room on the first floor of Hunt Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUIS SERT WILL LECTURE | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

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