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Word: senting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Communists found that Japanese soldiers who were captured and returned to their own lines were executed by the Japanese authorities, the Communists stopped holding Japanese prisoners, sent back as many as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For Japanese, the Gong! | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...week's end, sleepless and haggard, President Lebrun sent once more for Camille Chautemps, asked him to try to form a Cabinet. "We have been around in a circle," declared the Premier-Designate with an exhausted attempt at humor, "and we are back where we started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: If You Want Liberty. . . . | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...pictures submitted must be 8x10 in. or larger, black and white mounted prints. 6--All pictures entered in the contest will be returned to contestant if return address and postage is inclosed. 7--To be eligible, entries must be received by February 7, 1938 and should be sent to Gobin Stair, Carpenter Hall, Hanover, New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH CARNIVAL HOLDS PHOTO CONTEST | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

Birley, who sent Robinson his photograph. That night Drug Clerk Robinson dreamed he saw Birley making mystic motions over a corpse, thought he heard him saying: "This is Psychiana, the power that will bring new life to a spiritually dead world." Next day the drug clerk wrote the cotton broker: "You are to be associated with me in this business. Please send $40,000." Fortnight later, a bank in Spokane, Wash. informed Robinson that $20,000 had been deposited to his account, that Mr. Birley promised $20,000 more the following week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Moscow, seat of the University of Idaho, population 5,000, was a second-class post-office town when Doc Robinson settled there. It has jumped to first class, Psychiana having sent out more & more mail-$14,852.63 worth last year. A beginners' Psychiana course of 20 lessons costs $20, includes an examination and the right to ask Doc Robinson for personal advice. (On a typical day last week he voiced 387 replies by dictaphone, which three stenographers took down.) Advanced courses of ten and 40 lessons cost respectively $10 and $50. Sending these out keeps 60 Psychiana employes busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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