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...Germany. This would place Poland in the bad strategic position of having to take the initiative and becoming the technical aggressor. If Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should get fainthearted about the Polish Guarantee, as the Nazis confidently expect, he would have a hole, albeit small, through which he could weasel. The first timid step in this direction was taken last week when a German naval delegation, at the invitation of the Danzig Government, visited the Free City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANZIG: First Step? | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...March, "Lorraine"Ganne *Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Tijuen, Brazilian Dance, Milband *Les Preludes," Bymphonie Poem Liszt *Ballet Suite from "Aida" Verdi Sacred Dance of the Priestesses--Danco of the Little Black Slaves--Ballabile *"Pop Goes the Weasel" Cailliet *"Rhapsody in Blue" Greshwin Soloist: LEO LITWIN *"Lagunen," Waltzes Strauss Pavane Gould *Aragonaise from "The Cid" Massenet *Selections checked (*) are available on record at Briggs & Briggs Music C311store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/17/1939 | See Source »

...scientific aids for weather forecasting-such as latex balloons (see col. 1) which ascend to great heights, send down upper-air data by means of automatic radio-made a promise: in the future, the Bureau's weathermen would doctor their daily forecasts less often with the weasel word "probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fewer Weasels | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...been Mr. Fathead's ma, I would have batted his ears morning and night for seven years to teach him manners. He ain't got the sense the good Lord puts into a weasel. Why, the first day I saw him, he was rude enough to take off his shirt right before me, while I was standing and talking to him. Just so! And another time he offered me a drink. Imagine! Now if it had been Pa or some grown-up gentleman, it would 'a' been all right; but a child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

Jews have always read this Balfour Declaration one way, Arabs have always read it the opposite way, and among neutral statesmen opinion has long been unanimous that the late Lord Balfour perpetrated one of history's most monstrous ambiguities, a weasel which has drenched Palestine in strife for 20 years. This week neutral opinion had not yet crystallized, but widely His Majesty's Government was beginning to receive credit for honest efforts to simply cut with one harsh stroke the Palestine Knot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Mandate Unscrambled | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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