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Word: somehows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vengeance. But not everywhere was there unmixed joy. Lines of men and women streamed out of Madrid toward the coast, hoping somehow to escape the clutches of Fascist rule. Thousands of stanch Loyalists who feared for their lives if they remained clamored to board British warships, besieged consulates of neutral powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Aftermath | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...will proceed nicely.' " Their ulterior motive, he said, was to get Germany and Russia into war, let them knock each other groggy, and then, he intimated, step in to knock them both out. This passage was widely quoted by those who believe Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin may somehow, someday get together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Drivel! | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Suddenly this week came the news that Ex-Premier Tiso, too, was a hero. Somehow he got out of the monastery and into an airplane-which flew straight to Berlin. Adolf Hitler immediately received him for a 40-minute conference. As the ousted Dr. Tiso drove away, Führer Hitler's Elite Bodyguard rolled out a drum salute reserved for foreign statesmen who are still in office. Dr. Tiso hurried to a telephone and called Premier Sidor in Bratislava: summon the Slovak Parliament, he commanded, for he was coming to read it a declaration...

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

Amidst the ceaseless stream of Western melodramas flowing annually from the pens of Hollywood script writers, there are a few really first-rate productions. Such a picture is the "Oklahoma Kid." Somehow the hackneyed plot about the outlaw who "goes straight" has been given a unique twist, resulting in eighty minutes of fast moving, swashbuckling action. James Cagney comes through with a thoroughly convincing performance in the title role. Besides looking like a true cowboy, Mr. Cagney shows a depth of character portrayal unusual for pictures of this type. Humphrey Bogart does a fine job as a leering and scheming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

...Somehow nothing is quite right when one suddenly spends ten million dollars," is a comment made about the Houses by a Harvard alumnus in a new novel by John P. Marquand '15, Pulitzer Prize winner and satirist of Boston's intellectual society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Author Likes Old Housing System | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

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