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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silent on Crimson Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Yale Coach at Harvard Thinks Harlow's Staff, Offense Unexcelled | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

...heels, sold out to Germany, so that fascism is victorious and omnipotcut. The surrender at Godesburg signified the Anglo-French loss of supremacy, and with it was critically injured a well-meaning, well-led little nation which supposedly had the protection of its democratic neighbors. America only, so far silent on the European situation, is left as a democratic force which has not yet capitulated to the Napoleonic demands of a ruthless dictator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELL, AMERICA! | 9/24/1938 | See Source »

...type of accolade. Rich forest greens, the deep tones of turn-of-the-century interiors, the cheerful glow of full bottles on a well-stocked bar help immeasurably to give the picture character and substance. Its life blood, however, is a story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived through them some of the heroic sweep and thunder of the West's lore of legendary foresters. Good shot: a falling redwood seen through a stationary camera sighting along the trunk of the tree as it levels with the lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Britain and France, lawful democracies, applauded Mr. Hull's words, Autarchic Germany snorted "moral preacher." Autarchic Italy gave him the silent treatment. Autarchic Japan hissed: "Mr. Hull is an idealist." But within 48 hours reactions to Mr. Hull were overshadowed by reactions to President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: New Axis? | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...smash the Calles machine within a year, send his Boss flying, and in four years reorganize the Party with his own henchmen in key posts has been a hard-fought triumph. "The Sphinx" used to be the army nickname of General Cárdenas,' and with a grim, silent, unrelenting energy like that of Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying, and today he is neither Fascist nor Communist nor Socialist-just a Mexican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plows Plus Rifles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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