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Word: wellses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegates to the Geneva Disarmament Conference were all on their way home last week for a breather before reassembling sometime between September and January, having completely baffled the world as to what they had really accomplished. Almost as baffled was tall, hawk-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, veteran of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pitiful Invention | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Novelist Herbert George Wells went up to Oxford last week to make a speech before the Liberal Summer School. He was moved. Roundly he attacked all British political parties, urging a sort of diluted British Fascism of his own invention. The Oxford audience listened politely when he said that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dark Line | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Not since the days of Victoria and Palmerston has public criticism been leveled against the Crown in Britain. The audience filed out in shocked silence. Newshawks hurried to the platform to interview the Master of University College who presided. Sir Michael Ernest Sadler,* scowling purse-lipped over his doctor'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dark Line | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Tariff: ". . . Extension of the general principle of protection to the products of our farms, forests, mines and oil wells."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 9,000 Words | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) Ezra Squier Tipple, honorary president of Drew University ....... L.H.D. Andrew Wells Robertson, board chairman, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co ....... LL.D. Herbert Welch. Methodist Bishop of Pittsburgh Area ...... LL.D.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 13, 1932 | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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