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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"It is hard for me to conceive of any method of diffusing knowledge that would more exactly meet the purpose our first President had in mind. ... I am sure the heads of the Government departments will not fail to make good use of it ... to correct the kind of misinformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Canned Rposevelt | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Through a pea-soup fog the fishing schooner Isabelle Parker, out of Boston, footed it north one night last week toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 47 Men and a Corpse | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

First the fishermen searched the water for men from the Rose who had not had time to launch their dories. They found them all. Then, without food, water or compasses, they struck out, rowing steadily through the grey dawn toward the land somewhere about 100 miles westward. The sea was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 47 Men and a Corpse | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Unperturbed by the New Masses' revelation, the Post blandly admitted that Writer Levine had collaborated with the general, explained: "Krivitsky doesn't write English and Levine did his translating." As for Krivitsky's name being Ginsberg, the Post said: "That's quite true, but Trotsky'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: You Are Shmelka Ginsberg! | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Hotel Imperial (Paramount). Sloe-eyed Isa Miranda of Italy, who unfortunately got to Hollywood about ten years after Marlene Dietrich, going through her preliminary workout in a spy melodrama.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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