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Word: whatness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What was wrong was that Ohio is in the midst of a relief crisis. The Indians' third baseman was turned down.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: No Visible Means | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Impressed, Mr. Keltner wrote to the Ohio Unemployment Compensation Commission in Columbus, Ohio, applied for a $15-a-week handout. He was entitled to it, wasn't he? What was wrong with it?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: No Visible Means | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

What Ohioans were wondering last week was why there was not more of a stink about the relief deadlock in Cleveland. Relief funds in Cleveland continued to dwindle, approximately 16,000 unemployed (ablebodied, unmarried, childless couples) were dropped from food lists, left to feed themselves, somehow. Cut to crusts were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: No Visible Means | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Having seen clearly what was coming, the Finns have stored surprising amounts of ammunition. From Sweden they got guns, not too many but very good ones, especially the first class Bofors anti-aircrafts. Their little fleet could do with support from Sweden's crack one, being mostly submarines, gunboats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 36-to-1 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

As in the last war, most of the sweep volunteers were fishermen, whose hard-boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Quiet But Fierce | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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