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Word: unrest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although reports of internal unrest are an accepted starting point of wartime propaganda, there were hints last week that this very thing might be the answer to Germany's unusual hesitation in the war. It became more & more obvious that Czechs are doing all they can to sabotage their stern protectors. Skoda's intricate machine guns have a way of being delivered with one tiny, essential part missing. Prague's milk cans have a way of leaving dairies with a tiny hole punched in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Black-Tie Birthday | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...this basis, and with such a flexibility, the peaks and valleys of unemployment; of industrial progress and prosperity; of labor unrest, will be leveled and stabilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Capital's Partners | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Such recommendations are impressive. Something is indeed happening to education. The old system is not clicking so well. There are a dozen indications of Faculty, student, and graduate unrest, chiefly caused by the realization that college is no longer doing the job it once did, or might still do under changed conditions. If Harvard is to continue at, or even near, the top of the scholastic heap, it is time to take the cotton of complacency out of the administrative ear, and hearken to proposals such as the one made by the Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISPUTED "AREAS" | 5/31/1939 | See Source »

...treaty affirmed the Italian-German determination to "stand side by side with their united strength for the preservation of peace and the securing of their living space." "On these lines forecast by history," the treaty's preamble reads, "Germany and Italy, in the midst of a world of unrest and dissolution, will serve to secure the bases for European culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: No Thank You, Herr Hitler | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Chile, the Popular Front Government ordered deported Hans Voigt Schmidt, German State Railroads tourist agent in Santiago. His slip: receiving 100,000 anti-Jewish leaflets. Police charged German Railroads was planning a press and radio campaign to stir up political unrest and hatred of Chile's Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Guessing and Steaming | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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