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Word: theys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"When I see statements that the Germans during 1940 will have as many as 400 U-boats in commission and that they are producing these vessels by a chain-belt system, I wonder if they are producing the U-boat captains and crews by a similar method. If so, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Churchill v. Chain Belt | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Convoys can go no faster than their slowest members. Mr. Churchill said that the system has now been speeded by instituting "slow" and "fast" convoys, so that wallowing tramps do not hold up the parade.* He pointed out that while losses of British merchant shipping declined in October to half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Churchill v. Chain Belt | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

It was the fourth year the Ice Follies had come to Broadway. The show was started on a shoestring by Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson (a pair of St. Paul skaters who first got into the business 13 years ago when they were hired to do a comic Bowery skit at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

But the skaters that brought down the house each night were Frick & Frack, a pair of Swiss comics. Frick & Frack have been a scream ever since they first skated together in their native Basle three years ago. Frick, whose real name is Werner Groebli, was a student at the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Before they realized what was happening, Frick and Frack were performing in Zurich, Berne, St. Moritz. At St. Moritz an English producer spied them, hired them to do a turn in a London ice show. In London last winter a U. S. promoter saw them, hired them to do their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Ice | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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