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Word: thinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saint Exupery beside being a first class writer plays the violin well, draws well, plays chess well, is very gifted. Incidentally, I never heard him use his title, probably "no Count, he." I do not think he would consider himself as France's No. i airman, holds no record that I know of, probably "no France's No. i airman, he." However, he is possibly the best known French pilot outside air circles and this due. to his writings, he also is a helluva nice fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...explanation enough. To others concerned over her increasing truculence along the Neutrality Front and its influence on U. S. women hell-bent for peace, it explained more fully why Eleanor Roosevelt, who four years ago said, "The war idea is obsolete," had last fortnight written, "Are we going to think only of our skins and our own pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sons and War | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...said, "when people come up to me and say 'Let them stew in their own juice; it isn't our war because we can't help suffering when all the rest of the world is suffering. We can't go scot-free. For people who think they can give one a terrible feeling of lack of real appreciation of the responsibility that lies on us, as one great nation at peace today, to be thinking seriously of what we can do to alleviate suffering for civilian populations and to bring about a state of mind which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sons and War | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Sept. 2: "It is hard to see how he can sleep at night and think of the people in many nations whom he may send to their deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sons and War | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...DiMag was wallowing in a huge batting slum; two of the pitches complained of sore arms and a third pulled a muscle in his side. "There is hope," thought the baseball world. But after the first two games that same world has thought better of itself and ceased to think. The two pitching stars of the Cincy Club, boasting a combined record of fifty-two victories, have merely added two defeats to their list. The Reds thus far possess a team batting average of .088 and they are sleeping off a two-hit whitewashing inflicted upon them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TANKS OF THE YANKS | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

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