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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through his Central China Daily News, Puppet-elect Wang said: "Japan's willingness to make peace with China does not signify friendliness but Japan's inability to defeat China." Japan, he declared, must either cooperate economically with China as an equal, or withdraw entirely. Later in the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Wang to Life | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Died. Henry H. Colpus, 76, who claimed to be the firstborn (illegitimate) son of King Edward VII of England; in St. Petersburg,. Fla. His story: "My mother ... a young widow ... on her way to the Ascot races . . . was passing through Windsor Park alone when she met the young Prince [of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Then something happened to Dick Knight. One autumn Manhattan's stock-market collapsed; but it was not that. He began to drink hard, and kept it up for seven years; but it was not that either. It was a delusion of grandeur, he thought later, brought on by too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

People who go to Dr. Rathbone to be relaxed usually complain of pains in their backs and legs, stiff necks, indigestion, insomnia. First thing she does is to have them thoroughly examined by a doctor. Then she massages and applies hot pads to their tensest muscles. Because relaxing is largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Relax | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

At Yale an hour before Mr. Browder was due at Strathcona Hall (capacity: 407) one afternoon last week, police had to close the doors, with nearly 500 inside, sitting, standing and hanging from the windows. By the time Mr. Browder was squeezed in through a side door, 2,500 more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Browder at Yale | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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