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Word: secret (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret new U. S. explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Secret Service (through Frank J. Wilson, chief) announced: "The thing that sticks out is that no one seemed to want to do them any harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread-&-Butter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Clouds over Europe (Columbia) is no international storm warning, but the most enjoyable leg-pulling in a coon's age on such favorite cinema standbys as spies, secret war gadgets and Scotland Yard. Made in England with Hollywood money to satisfy the Buy-British quota laws, Clouds over Europe 1) elbow-digs at British stuffocracy sufficiently to get a nod from most Anglophobes; 2) contains the sort of British acting calculated to warm an Anglophile's heart; and 3) has enough thrill, pace and lovestuff to stay on the top side of any U. S. double bill...

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

Meanwhile, in Houston, Tex. Representative Martin Dies said his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities had information that indicated a "widespread secret anti-Semitic organization" in the nation's schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: H (for Hebrew) | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...deliberate lie" was what President Roosevelt called press reports that at a secret conference with the Senate Military Affairs committee he: 1. Called Hitler the "Mad Man of Europe." 2. Admitted negotiating a naval alliance with Britain. 3. Termed the the U. S. air force "poorly manned and equipped" 4.Placed the U. S. defense frontier in France. 5. Asked for an air fleet of 12,000 planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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