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Word: spheres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal observation on the Iraq situation: though the Iraqis seemed to outnumber the British five-to-one, and though the Germans were leading them they were still rotten fighters, and the British would be able to handle them. But as to British chances against the Germans in that sphere. Jimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: With Roosevelt in Iraq | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Americas. "In the United States the sphere of influence would be Canada, Central and South America, Newfoundland and Greenland, with the islands in regional waters, but there would be an undertaking on America's part not to form a hegemony in South America against the Axis. Indeed, there would be required the fullest freedom and equality of opportunity for Germany and its allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Axis Divides the World | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...come. It was a prognosis which the U.S., having opened the Red Sea (about a two-month voyage from New York) to its shipping, having committed itself a step further in the Battle of the Atlantic by turning over ten anti-rumrunning cutters, having attached Greenland to its sphere of defense (see p. 23), might digest well: "It is," said the Prime Minister, "of course very hazardous to try to forecast in what direction or directions Hitler will employ his military machine in the present year. ..." Winston Churchill paused. He was pale and tired-looking, and his delivery this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Toward the Sad Extremity | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...agree with him. In fact he does not go far enough. He should have said Hitler is a god. It does not matter whether he is a good or bad god, because he got into the wrong sphere. He does not know it yet, but he will know it, when he-some day in the not far future-sits sucking his thumb on some lonely island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Argentine than on Ortega, who discovers that the Argentinean "is a Narcissus to the highest degree, being both Narcissus and the spring of Narcissus, and his image into the bargain." Now a refugee in Buenos Aires, Author Ortega regrets that "I know too little of the secret sphere of erotic relations in Argentina. ... Is the Argentinean a good lover?" He believes that the answer would "confirm or refute my diagnosis." Most important essay is Unity and Diversity of Europe. Ortega y Gasset says a loud No to a new order in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lectures, Not Too Serious | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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