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Word: stampedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sordid indeed to a man like Sir Kingsley is the memory of how, when he distributed 2,000 holders and 9,000 stainless steel nibs last year to branch post offices, more than 1,200 vanished in the first month. Undaunted, Sir Kingsley last week planned to distribute 10,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tolls & Nibs | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

Author Bradford's Negro dialect has an authentic ring but is stamped with his own mark. In almost every book he introduces some memorable tag of nigger-talk. In Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun it was: "Soap an' water, country boy"- deep South for Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pastures Still Green | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

In his story of vicarious travel in the Far East, 26-year-old Oxonian Fleming first takes us along the outside rim of Red China, along the Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Manchukuo. Fleming is immediately disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational...

Author: By J. H. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

The Government claimed to possess proof last week that Director Apold would have received a portfolio in the Nazi Cabinet expected to be formed in Austria, after Dollfuss' assassination, by the late Chancellor's treacherous Minister to Italy. Dr. Anton Rintelen who sought to commit suicide when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Iron Mountain Squeeze | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

According to official communiques there was no one in bed with Captain Roehm when Chancellor Hitler burst in, but in the adjoining bedroom Nazi Police Chief Edmund Heines of Breslau was nabbed with a young storm trooper between the sheets. "Certain sights were disclosed in the seizing of the rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Blood Purge | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

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