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Word: sisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns. This is our purpose and our pledge.' "In fulfillment of this purpose, we will not be intimidated by the threats of dictators that they will regard as a breach of international law and as an act of war our aid to the democracies which dare to re sist their aggression. Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterally proclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: For Four Human Freedoms | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Birthdays. Jean Sibelius, great Finnish composer, his 75th. Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German hero of World War I, his gist. William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, denouncing those who would have America "become a sort of tail end of a foreign empire," his Sist. Tom Mooney, labor saint, his 58th, at St. Luke's hospital, San Francisco, where in ten months he has undergone three abdominal operations, four transfusions. William Constant Wheeler, the nation's only authentic son of the Revolution, at his South Woodbury, Vt. farmhouse, his 93rd. His father, who volunteered under Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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