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Word: says (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happens to the American Labor Party is of national interest, for A. L. P. will have something to say about how the New York vote goes in 1940. Old-line Democrats and Republicans do not forget that the American Labor Party in 1937 gave New York City's Mayor LaGuardia his winning majority, narrowly saved Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman from defeat last year by Tom Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Red Lights Out | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...ahead. No genius was needed to foretell the war's coming. But no genius was clairvoyant enough to predict its outcome or its end, to guess the magnitude of the struggle or how, eventually, its antagonists would line up; no philosopher was so clear as to say what it would do to the complex of heritages, laws, customs, beliefs and traditions that are known as civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

That was all for Joy Allen Duncan and her Auntie, who, Joy neglected to say, lost her 13-year-old daughter in the sinking, but it was not all for many a skipper who must continue to dodge mines, many an unsung hero who must sow them, many an even braver man who must sweep them to make way for men o' war, transports, supply ships. Technique learned in the bitter school of 1914-18 is now in full play on both sides of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Down We Go | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that she cursed him, she replied: "I'm sorry about the language but I work with pilots and say 'damn' like an adjective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Maiden, Mass., Donald W. Lovett pummeled a motor vehicle inspector who stopped him and asked to see his driving license. Explained Driver Lovett to the court: "He didn't say please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Information | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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