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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through rivet holes in an after bulkhead new prisoners were shown neat stacks of barrel-sized mines; adjacent were the powder magazines. What would happen if a mishap or an enemy shell touched that hold was something they all thought about, seldom spoke of. Other anxious moments came as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrible Tub | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

With such diverting thoughts, the Wolfs prisoners did not complain of the tropic heat that turned their filthy prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrible Tub | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

After 260 pages of ingratiating and painful romance, in the reliably glamorous Civil War-Reconstruction setting, Heroine Emily Fenwick settles down to her real business. That is, for 700 pages and 60 years more, to live out the whole vast length of her life, the trivial with the towering, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ladies'-Book | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

But the reversal of the field with the quarter brought a reversal in Harvard play. Spreyer, George Heiden, and later Fran Lee ripped through the now sieve-like Princeton line. After Gene Lovett intercepted an Allerdice pass in the second period, Lee broke away for a 47-yard touchdown dash...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Rejuvenated Squad Shows Improvement In Dropping Close Contest to Bengals | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

The Neutrality Act recently passed by Congress is the latest, most up-to-date and streamlined weapon for keeping the U.S. out of war. It is a product of one of the outstanding modern examples of the democratic process of debate, an unhurried and penetrating discussion of the subject by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME FOR A RE-DEAL | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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