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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's first move, no doubt, would be a mass air attack aimed at all the Dutch airports, especially those along the Channel which might serve any power coming to The Netherlands' rescue. The Dutch Air Force contains not more than 300 planes, two-thirds of them old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: General Dike | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"Then [9:21, exactly eleven minutes after Adolf Hitler left] a muffled detonation and shattering glass! There were several hysterical screams. The force of the explosion hurled me against a table. A few seconds of silence and darkness; then in the dim light of a couple of bulbs which remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"I ran to the hall entrance with two others, but we could not make headway against the stream of persons pouring out. Before us, filling the hall, was a yellow-grey wall of dust and smoke. . . . Several wounded faltered through the door. I broke through and . . . the way into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

As if in direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

In recent years ardent anti-Semite Adolf Hitler and his then leading British admirer, potent London Daily Mail Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere, conducted their somewhat confused and often ludicrous relations through "Princess Steffi, the Mystery Woman of Europe" (as tabloids tag her), despite the fact that she is a Viennese...

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

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