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Word: stilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After victory, what then?" asked the Foreign Secretary. His answers, still vague as a Solent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Paper Plan | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last week, along with a months-high accumulation of mailbags, assorted comforts, phonograph records, clothing, etc. tagged for Pitcairn, the essential works of VR6AY, sent back last spring for repairs, lay in Panama, still waiting for a British merchantman which war orders sent elsewhere. Chances were, according to Pitcairn's best-informed friends and radio acquaintances, that the islanders were as much in the dark about this war as they were about the last. Worse yet, they were probably in extreme need of foodstuffs, medicine, other necessities, which in recent years they have got largely from tourist ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pitcairn's Plight | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...established in 1864, V. M. I. became the finest military school in the U. S. outside of West Point. Its cadets were still chiefly Southerners, although non-Virginians were admitted at a higher tuition. As freshman hazing victims, they got the habit of calling each other Brother Rat.* Last week the Brother Rats overran Lexington, Va., saw two football games, had a whopping good time at the centennial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Absentee | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Burgess Meredith, as master of ceremonies, set the mood: "What we have to say seriously, can be simply said. It's this:Democracy is a good thing. It works. It may creak a bit, but it works. And in its working, it still turns out good times, good news, good people. . . . And so, Life, Liberty and most particularly the Pursuit of Happiness, of these we sing!" In the first few weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...greatest songs are still unsung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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