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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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It appeared that the approach of World War II caused the press lord to decide belatedly that European politics ought to be handled through the Foreign Offices only, and this cost the Mystery Woman her job with him. The Paris weekly Aux Ecoutes charged in 1933, when she was reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mystery Woman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Security. "We shall have to . . . find means of reconciling the necessity of change in a constantly changing world with security against the disturbance of the general peace through resort to violence."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Paper Plan | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Federation. "There are some who believe that the new order will only come through surrender in some measure by the nations of their sovereign rights, in order to clear the way for some more organic union. But if it is our hope to create a more truly international system out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Paper Plan | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

When Pitcairn's native radio operator, Andrew Young, shipped VR6AY's ailing equipment off for repairs, he wrote to several U. S. radio ham acquaintances. A landslide, he said, had damaged the islanders' boats in Bounty Bay; rats (mostly Bounty descendants, too) were eating up the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pitcairn's Plight | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last December a lungfish from a pond in British East Africa was placed in a large tin can filled with wet mud. This creature, something like a catfish, something like a small eel, struggled through the mud to the top of the can occasionally to breathe air; but as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Champion Laggard | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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