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Word: thinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy song echoing in his ears, Charlie wakes up back in concentration camp, a stormtrooper glowering down at him. Charlie smiles and the stormtrooper starts to smile back. Then his lips freeze and he bellows Charlie Chaplin's curtain line: "Get up, Jew! Where the hell do you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scripteaser | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Dwyer Stakes), and two record-breaking trials, railbirds were beginning once more to hail Johnstown as one of the great horses of all time, when he was beaten again by Challedon in the Arlington Classic at Chicago. If Johnstown recovers his lost prestige at Saratoga (and most turfmen think that he will), William Woodward may have another great champion to retire to stud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, 54, in her syndicated column, My Day: "I suppose I had better make a confession. I was stopped by a highway patrol officer yesterday. My boys* have always said that it would give them great satisfaction if I would be arrested and I think yesterday I came very near receiving more than the gentle reprimand which was given to me. I had been talking and apparently not watching my speedometer, so I was firmly convinced that I had never gone over 45, and the patrol officer quite as firmly told me I was going 60, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...exacting. He will pass no headline that begins or ends with a preposition, and to him all two-letter words are prepositions. He expects to spend the rest of his life on the Enterprise and says: "I'm too old to be changing jobs any more." His friends think he is older than the 57 years he confesses to, but admit that he might just look older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...make much difference. ... A King like N'jiké is a great stabilizing force in a society assailed on every hand by change ... in fact, takes the place of a religion to his people. He is not unaware of the fact. He does his part, and I think he feels his responsibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of Africa | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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