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Word: stilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warsaw. "Children with staring eyes . . . led blindly away as if pursued by a ghost. . . . The picture of corpses still stands before my eyes. One little hand detached from a corpse ... a child's brains bashed on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jitters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...duration. The 64 Rhodesmen al ready at Oxford on the 1937 and 1938 scholarships were sent home. Dr. Ayde lotte said he would try to get his Rhodes-men scholarships or teaching jobs in the U. S., that at war's end their Rhodes scholarships would still be good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...begins. Flunks worry General College because they are so numerous: half of all U. S. undergraduates flunk out of college. General College believes that, if this large group cannot become competent doctors, lawyers or engineers, at least they must be made competent citizens. After seven years the college is still seeking a formula for turning out good citizens,* but last week it reported progress: it had determined by a prodigious piece of research what a college graduate and good citizen needs to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: University of Tomorrow | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...unheard for several hours, had been thought bombed, many listeners to this broadcast smelled a Nazi. Sure enough, later that evening Warsaw's Radio Station 2 came on, warned Poles against broadcasts purporting to come from Station 1, which had been disabled; assured its listeners that Warsaw still stood; sought volunteers for trenching and barricading; switched to Polish music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At Home & Abroad | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...British race meetings for 1939 were scratched, including next month's Cesarewitch Stakes, basis of the third and last of this year's Irish Hospital Sweepstakes -for which some $10,000,000 has already been pooled. Ticket holders, however, will still get a run for their money in some form of drawing for prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moratorium | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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