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No, I don't agree with Reader Smith that we should strive to give Mr. Hitler generations of free advertising by incorporating his name into our language. . . . It seems to me that the suggested word "hitler" savors too much of yielding, because of temporary emotion, to the childish impulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Why use the word "hitler" to signify lying? Why not use "balfour"? . . . Lord Balfour lied to both his friends, the Jews and the Arabs, promising to each what he could not give to both and what he gave to neither. With the British a lie becomes a terminological inexactitude which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

The committee said that it will continue to circulate the petition over the week-end. "In signing this petition," the appeal reads, "we do not signify our approval of Mr. Browder's point of view, but affirm the right of Harvard students to hear him."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asking Permission For Browder to Speak Gains | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

In the big, twelve-ooimd directory of the American Medical Association, the letters col. after a doctor's name signify that he is a Negro. Most of the 300 Negro

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leach's MacDonald | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

What that declaration was he would not say just then. But significant was a German Foreign Office statement, issued but immediately withdrawn pending further developments: "The return of Czecho-Slovakia to the German Reich would signify the restoration of ancient historical conditions. . . . An unambiguous situation in Czecho-Slovakia is indispensable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA: Shoulder to Shoulder | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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