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Word: thoughts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alleging that at least 600 Wellesley, Radcliffe, B.U., and Simmons fresh-women are coming to the H.S.U. Memorial Hall dance Friday night, sponsors of the second annual get-together last night had frozen feet at the thought that there wouldn't be enough Harvard men to go around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSU DANCE DRAWS 600 GIRLS; "MEN WANTED," SAY BACKERS | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

Then there was this affair about changing some U. S. ships to Panama registry so they could sail into war zones. Vag had just about made up his mind that this was hedging, and exactly the wrong thing to do to stay out of war. After all, Mr. Hull thought so too. But again, the President quickly made the statement that the matter had no bearing on our neutrality. What to believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...across No Man's Land under the muzzles of Germany's guns, and up to Basel, Switzerland-first French train to arrive there since the end of August. Explained the engineer: "We had a lot of stuff consigned to Switzerland sitting in the freight station ... so I thought I might as well bring it along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Pigeons In, Men Out | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...fusion" plan worked, pronounced it a failure. But Professor Wilson found that he could pin no roses on the old-fashioned textbooks, either. Three years ago he investigated old-fashioned upState New York schools for the New York Regents, learned that many of the State's future citizens thought that habeas corpus was a disease, liabilities were assets and poverty was best defined as "the boyhood of great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Better Citizens | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Through rivet holes in an after bulkhead new prisoners were shown neat stacks of barrel-sized mines; adjacent were the powder magazines. What would happen if a mishap or an enemy shell touched that hold was something they all thought about, seldom spoke of. Other anxious moments came as they listened to the ticklish task of minelaying, or as they waited in the blue, corpselike light when buzzers called the crew to battle stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrible Tub | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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