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Word: wellses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Rape of Chin Valley. "The physical impact [was] tremendous. Village after village completely destroyed. Houses shattered and burned, wells fouled, bridges destroyed, roads torn up. Houses were burned by the soldiery both out of boredom and deviltry, and because they were cold and needed fire and warmth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr., a shrewd, dynamic businessman, was the son of a Yankee-born Atlanta capitalist. In their junior year, they published a 5? guide to the Chicago World's Fair, written and illustrated by Stone. It netted $600. Before graduation they had published books by Hamlin Garland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man's Literature | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

We can't all qualify as scholars, but we can be interested and benefited. Personally, I think "popularizers" such as Will Durant, H. G. Wells, TIME and LIFE are justified. Don't you?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

One night last week 14 men met in Washington's exclusive Cosmos Club for dinner. Ostensible purpose: to honor bouncing young Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University. Real purpose: a get-acquainted meeting for Paul Vories McNutt and the Janizariat of the New Deal.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Handsome Hoosier | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Not only are Rumania's immediate neighbors sources of apprehension. The Nazis still have their eyes on Rumania and, although Russia's swift move into southern Poland kept Germany from Rumania's boundary, less than two months ago Nazi agents in Rumania assassinated Premier Armand Calinescu and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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