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Word: timbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Rykov, Bukharin, former Chief of Ogpu Yagoda, Finance Commissar Grinko, former President of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Khodzhaev, former All-Union Foreign Trade Commissar Rozengolts, former All-Union Agriculture Commissar Chernov, former All-Union Timber Chief Ivanov, former All-Union Cooperative Stores Chief Zelensky, former All-Union First Assistant Foreign Commissar Krestinsky, former Kremlin Hospital Chief Dr. Levin, Endocrinologist Dr. Kazakov, the late Maxim Gorki's secretary Kruchkov, and the lesser Communists Ikramov, Sharangovich, Zubarev, Bulanov and Maximov-Dikovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Thank God! | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Considered Presidential Timber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. WILL ADDRESS FRESHMEN | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

Roosevelt, long prominent in Republican circles, has had a varied and successful career in public service. In recent months he has been widely considered by G. O. P. chiefs as Presidential timber in the 1940 campaign although he has consistently denied that he will run for office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. WILL ADDRESS FRESHMEN | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

While the world's blatant headlines were yammering as though Germany had already swallowed Austria politically, economic alignment-of far greater.immediate importance to both countries-was discussed. To Austria German industry looks hungrily for iron and copper (see map, p. 21) and the Reich can use some Austrian timber. To Austria-which was lost from many of her sources of wealth by the post-War partition of her empire-Germany can offer wider economic horizons if Economic Plan Dictator Goring chooses, and not otherwise. That the two nations may form a customs union is now highly probable. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Windows Opened | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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