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Word: sameness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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National defense, the subject foremost in President Roosevelt's mind since the elections, was pushed aside by him for a few minutes last week while he enunciated with icy deliberation the nation's considered opinion of Adolf Hitler & Co.'s super-pogrom (see p. 10). When he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Continental Solidarity | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Three days elapsed before Adolf Hitler & Co. replied to Franklin Roosevelt. They did so in the same idiom as Ambassador Wilson's recall. Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff was ordered home from Washington to explain what the official Nazi news agency called the "eigenartig" ("singular") attitude of the U. S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Singular Attitude | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

To repair their one night's damage the Japanese engineers send out 3,100 Ibs. of steel rails, 240 spikes and 28 poles. Total cost: 4,780 yen. Thus, if the Paoting farmers keep up their twice-a-week raids, they will cost the Japanese half a million yen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lawrences of Asia | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

One of the unpleasant realities of 1938 for the Occident is that the West is being kicked out of East Asia by Japan. The recent establishment of the monopolistic, Japanese-financed North China and Central China Development Companies is an extension of the same Japanese methods used to squeeze Occidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Present & Past | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

"As the notes (of the victrola) swelled, the dull aurora on the horizon pulsed and quickened and draped itself into arches and fanning beams which reached across the sky until at my zenith the display attained its crescendo. The music and the night became one; and I told myself that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

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