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Word: sundays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parallel? To nervous Europeans behind their taut frontiers, last week's events seemed as world-shaking as those of the fateful summer of 1914. No ordinary diligence caused Premier Edouard Daladier to call a meeting of the French Council of National Defense on Easter Sunday. Nor did any ordinary crisis cause Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to break a well-earned fishing holiday in Aberdeenshire to hurry back to London and summon for the first time since the World War a full Cabinet session for Easter Monday. Parliament was also convened in special session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: MADMEN AND FOOLS | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...which made out no case for giving him, any more than Pius XI, such a special designation. Last week the Holy Father spent his first Holy Week in office, a week made notable by the fact that his neighbor Benito Mussolini chose Good Friday to invade Albania. On Easter Sunday Pius XII made a radio address to the world: "There can be no peace so long as treaties which have been solemnly sanctioned have lost that security value which constitutes the foundation for reciprocal trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope for Peace | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...because that was the day the youngest Goodman, Jerome, was born. The first band under Goodman's direction was a pickup combination that he took to Cannon Club for a 1929 Princeton house party. His first national publicity, on the occasion of his 1935 Sunday concert, while playing in Chicago, is attributed to TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Clarinetist's Progress | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

When spectacled, studious John M. Cassells (a onetime Rhodes Scholar, later a Harvard instructor) was a youth, he worked in a wholesale fruit house. One of his functions was to mix bad peanuts with sound ones. He found the job particularly disagreeable because he was a Sunday School teacher. Mr. Cassells became interested in consumers' problems. Year and a half ago, when the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. about $40,000 a year to found an Institute for Consumer Education, Stephens took John Cassells, then 37, from Harvard, made him director of its Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Economic Statesmanship | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...coaching is better, the spirit of competition is keener, the participation is larger. The elusive fire-fly of "athletics for all" will for once be captured. There will be a decisive de-emphasis of sports if by emphasis is meant playing to win--for the old grads and the Sunday columnists. There will be new emphasis in the sense of athletics for sport and for physical gain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWELFTH SPY | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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