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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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No mere boondoggling in New Jersey's waistlands was this latest WPA project. Hope of the sponsors was that this gynemetric survey would result in making everybody happier, some people better dressed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: No Boondoggling | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In the big London stores officials gloomed, "trade is far below normal." The forehanded British toy trade offered numerous war toys, in sharp contrast to shortage in Germany, some remarkably expensive. Example: the Maginot Line, completely equipped, ten pounds.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Saint Nicholas & Black Peter. Slow in some respects, the Dutch had outspeeded other Europeans in the matter of Santa Claus last week, as they do every year. To strict Calvinistic subjects of devout Queen Wilhelmina it would smack of blasphemy to observe Dec. 25 otherwise than with solemn thanks in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

For Finland, the League thus did more than was ever done for Greece (in the Corfu dispute), China, Ethiopia, Spain, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland. The League's Secretariat was set to work to coordinate and classify Finland's more pressing needs, and the prospects seemed good that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

At Stockholm's Royal Palace last week, 13 men stood before old King Gustaf V and took their oaths of office. They were the Cabinet Ministers who formed Sweden's new coalition Government. Among them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutral 13 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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