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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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No one in the British Admiralty is likely to grow grey-haired over the immediate possibility of Adolf Hitler's small Navy overtaking the over-sized British Navy. The denunciation of the Polish Treaty, however, was far more serious. Herr Hitler disclosed that he had "proposed" to Poland that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hitler's Inning | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

From the early days of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. of America Incorpulated, through this winter's Harlem World's Fair, unfailing inventiveness has maintained radio's Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) 'n' Andy (Charles J. Correll) as the U. S.'s favorite blackface pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opinions | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Last week, as many a college senior sprawled on campus grass, musing on his graduation next month, the U. S. Office of Education held up a glass through which he might look at his future. It had made (with WPA's help) the first national study of how college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After College | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

> Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After College | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

They arrived in Manhattan to sup at the house of a Lincoln student off Park Avenue. Next day, fresh-cheeked and inquisitive, they rode a subway to Wall Street, visited other business districts, the Aquarium, Bellevue Hospital (which awed them), Radio City, headquarters of the Consolidation (Rockefeller) Coal Co. (which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Other Half | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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