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Word: ways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood and waved, but my mother-in-law reminded us of the old superstition that one must not watch people out of sight, so before they turned the bend we were back in our cars and on our way home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread-&-Butter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...traded his support to the plan in return for the President's acquiescence in income tax revision (see p. 16). Majority Leader Barkley assured his Senate mates that the program, whatever shape it might finally take, would not be dumped sensationally into Congress' lap this session. The way for it might be paved simply by extending the authority of existing agencies, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Out of the Fog | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...imponderable which Mr. Lewis declines to define so long as an implied third-party threat may be useful in swaying the big parties his way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Brazilian Embassy, a chat with Franklin Roosevelt, tea with Cordell Hull, the personal attentions of Chief of Staff Malin Craig are part of the Washington ritual. Ranking generals will then accompany him on an aerial tour of U. S. Army posts, with appropriate reviews and banquets on the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Butter and Toast | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...blockaded an old British commercial colony. In that action the Japanese Empire not only came close to waging a bloodless war with the British Empire but again served dramatic notice that in her "holy mission" of building up a "new order" in Asia the entire West was in the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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