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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third native-born generation of an old Scotch line, but after the Jersey City incident I am soft pedaling my Americanism. H. F. McGINLEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...third successive year, the University will maintain a student guide service this summer, while the Medical School with institute the service for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Offer Free Guide Service This Summer | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

Born. To Princess Sibylle and Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden; their third daughter, to the disappointment of the nation, which wanted a prince; in Stockholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Producers of other commodities seem to have developed similarly sensitive reflexes since Depression I when business took its time about shutting up shop. In London last week the International Rubber Regulation Committee cut the third quarter export quota to 45% of basic allowances. Setting of the new quota, lowest since the Committee was formed, halted an abrupt decline in prices-19.7? a Ib. down to 11.3? since last year. Also the International Tin Committee ordered tin exports cut from 55% to 45% of standard tonnages. In Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace said he would soon reduce sugar quotas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Depression II | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

More than one-third of the nation's women, 36%, would rather see their sons go to jail than to war; among women under 30, this is the preference of 42%. While 88% feel that no overseas war is justified, 64% feel that war is justifiable on occasion, but by a quirk of feminine logic 87% regard invasion of the U. S. or its possessions as such an occasion. These opinions appeared this week in another nationwide survey of women conducted by the news-nosy Ladies' Home Journal. Other opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Women and War | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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