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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, snaking through the grandest mountain scenery in North America, the King and Queen enjoyed another royal prerogative, that of riding in the cab of the lead locomotive of the train's snorting "triple-header." Ahead lay three days of full-dress dignity in Vancouver and Victoria, before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Isn't It Wonderful? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

When the bubble burst, Stavisky was found in Chamonix, a bullet through his head. The suspicion was that the police had killed him because he knew too much. Rightist newsorgans (particularly the Royalist Action Française) played up the scandal as typical Leftist corruption. Rightists began to demonstrate in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: June and September | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Old John D. Rockefeller had little schooling, but no individual has influenced U. S. education more than he. Through his second largest philanthropy, the General Education Board, he angeled Progressive Education. Prime monument to his influence is Manhattan's Lincoln School, which for 22 years has done more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lapsing Lincoln? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

A toothbrush with a hollow handle, through which water can be sucked for rinsing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

> On the New York, New Haven and Hartford tracks near Newington, Conn, last week stood a work train with a power shovel mounted on a flat car. In the shovel's cab was Operator Burrell Wilhelm. His foot slipped and he fell against a control lever. At that moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wreckage | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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