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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experience. Historic sessions were no novelty for Mr. Churchill. For 37 of his 65 years he has been a member of Parliament, a steady dweller of the eight acres of stone where more good things have been said, and more windy platitudes expounded, than anywhere else on earth-with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

After Mussolini perceived how firm the Allies were, after the Pope's and Franklin Roosevelt's messages had accentuated the religious issue, and after Catholic Spain's new coolness became apparent, B. Mussolini began exchanging telephone messages with A. Hitler through the latter's Ambassador Hans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poor and Reluctant | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

They were elated, too, over the visit to their capital of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, onetime President of the Indian National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Straws | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Red or Black. In round numbers the Golden Gate Exposition's figures through July 31 showed:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

>Of some 50 transatlantic vessels still operating on schedule almost all were booked solid through September, their ballrooms, corridors, bars crammed with cots for which passengers eagerly paid cabin fare. In London one badly scared girl offered to buy her own bedding if a ship would sell her space anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Going Home | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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