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Word: willing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Good evening, men," Whitsitt may say, "tonight's feature story is headed: 'Thirteen incorrigibles shipped to Siberian stir.' " Siberia, in Michigan stir talk, is Marquette prison. Other items may have a warmer touch. Prisoner So-and-so lost a picture of his wife in the textile factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

For three minutes ($29.75) Russian born Cleveland Oilman Abraham ("Abe") Pickus, self-appointed telephone diplomat who thinks he helps world peace by overseas calls to heads of European and Asiatic governments,* talked with Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, warning him that Finland must cooperate with Russia or "she will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

"Britain may take good heart from the American Civil War when all the heroism of the South could not redeem their cause from the stain of slavery, just as all the courage and skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

"God is declaring that a state of thinly veiled conflict, the outbreak of which into actual war is only just suppressed, is not true peace. Mere absence of war is not His will for us nor our greatest good. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Is Doing | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Air and Altitude Sickness. Identical with seasickness, airsickness is "one of the most important unsolved problems in aviation medicine." Dr. Armstrong believes that it occurs mainly among neurotics who have an unconscious fear of falling. Far more serious is "acute altitude sickness," caused by decrease in the pressure of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Air Disease | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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