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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering Harrison Gulch to be a typical "Poor Young Men's" camp, permit me to point out that out of 165 enrollees two-thirds of them are taking correspondence courses which are offered by the California State Department of Education. One-half of the enrolled body are interested in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

According to the leaders of CCC Education, the 1,500 CCC camps scattered through this country have well-planned educational programs. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1939 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Basic set-up of the Navy's Problem XX was for a "White" attacking force under Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus to try from mid-Atlantic to penetrate a "Black" defense under Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews. The attackers might seek to gain a military foothold anywhere in the Americas from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sport of Presidents | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

The name of the Hopkins act was Restoring Business Confidence. Nothing quite like it had ever been staged under New Deal management. Heretofore Franklin Roosevelt's morsels of encouragement to Private Profit had been tossed out as asides in speeches which concentrated on the New Deal's grander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Restoration in Iowa | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

The nation's urge to rearm, so suddenly felt last autumn, so boldly cultivated by Franklin Roosevelt with warnings about the Dictators, was last week driving his national defense program steadily through Congress-when something happened to the urge. All went well as:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Windy Guam | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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