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Word: stilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike most travel books this one really travels, loiters nowhere, observes brightly on the fly, dwells most approvingly on the efforts of Siam's progressive Government to turn that still independent country into a democracy despite Japanese example and proximity. Fly in the ointment: the Government's mechanization program is causing serious technological unemployment among elephants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intelligence Report | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intelligence Report | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Approximately half of this year's Freshman class are on some sort of scholarship or doing some sort of work toward room and board. On the ten and fourteen meal contracts the new rates are more than double outside restaurants, and on the twenty one meal contracts they are still exorbitantly high. It may well be doubted if the dining halls are being run on a reasonable basis from the students' point of view. Cleveland Amory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

With more than two thousand replies to the tutoring school poll already in the hands of the CRIMSON, there still remain many students who have not turned in their answers. In order in facilitate the collection of these answers, the following arrangements will be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring School Poll | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Collecting and tabulating the tutoring school poll is still continuing with 2000 replies received. Other courses and results will be treated in subsequent stories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Thirds of Yardlings Taking History I Use Reviews or Notes | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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