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Word: suspects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of the 'have' and 'have-not' countries...." you say glibly, "is fundamental." Fundamental to what, if you please? To war, to peace, to understanding, or to confusion?-I suspect the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/15/1936 | See Source »

...days the students of North Carolina vindicated the honor system with a ruthlessness and gallantry which left Tarheels wondering whether the system would survive the shock. First the investigators asked North Carolina's Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell whether they could legally raid the quarters of a suspect. The Attorney General said no. Regardless, they appealed to the police chief of Chapel Hill, got a warrant, staged a night raid on the apartment of tall, slight Douglas Cartland, graduate in the class of 1934, Phi Beta Kappa, potent ping pong player. Caught with evidence of his work, Cartland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Honor in North Carolina | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...found, Howerth risked his life to save his deadly but still beloved serum, and was blinded for his pains. When a sudden and fatal epidemic broke out in one of Holtz's destitute mining towns, the few who knew what Howerth had been up to began to suspect that Holtz had taken over the experiment. While Howerth and his assistants worked feverishly to find an antivirus for the plague, Holtz wiped out his human liabilities by the thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Germs | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that the land Author Fallas writes of is more Utopian than Japanese, but even cynics will succumb temporarily to its charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Poor Butterfly | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...number of truck makers are specialists. Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.'s product is popular with municipalities for road building and snow removal. Marmon-Herrington also makes four-wheel drives, largely for the Army. Hug, another contractors' and municipal truck, is made in Highland, Ill. Few people suspect that Yale & Towne (locks) is a builder of electric trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trucks | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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