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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liberty-loving Englishmen once counted freedom from compulsory military service as one of their great blessings. To each of some 200,000 young men now being conscripted into the Army the War Office presents a little booklet designed to prove that military service is not so bad after all.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Welcome to Arms | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

It was not the first time that Liberal M. P.s had complained that one-sixth of Scotland, or about 3,400,000 acres, was devoted to deer. Once, in 1913, when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was a project afoot to force the deer-park-owning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Welshing Scot | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

A tall-story teller in conversation, Consul Reinhardt used to have breathless U. S. socialites bug-eyed as he described his escape from a Bolshevik prison. Jailed while assisting prisoners during the Russian Revolution, Consul Reinhardt day by day watched Chinese guards lead away some of his companions to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Literary Consul | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Rift between anti-appeasers in the British Foreign Office and Prime Minister Chamberlain reached near-scandalous proportions during the Munich Crisis. Some Foreign Office officials, the Prime Minister was certain", were even leaking confidential information to the press. After Munich some officials who handled press relations were suddenly shifted to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ministry of Propaganda | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Last week at Berlin there was some evidence to support this view. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop called a conference of German diplomats stationed in Central and South America. It was an nounced that Germany and Brazil had made up and were again exchanging Ambassadors. To Berlin will go Brazilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Made Up | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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