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Word: willingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Churchill revealed that 1,000 British merchantmen have been armed to shoot in self-defense at U-boats, that "before long" 2,000 will be so armed. He pointed out that torpedo attack from beneath the surface "can only be delivered at a quarter of the speed that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Churchill v. Chain Belt | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

> Sodium hexametaphosphate, 16 lbs. of which in 1,000,000 gals, of water will prevent scale formation in pipes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marvels | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Shrewd, rufous Hubert Renfro" Knickerbocker, prize-seal of Hearst's International News Service, disembarked in Manhattan, gloomily prophesied that the present war will last for "six years or so ... after that the real war begins. . . . None of us will ever live to see peace again. . . . There'll be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Probated in London was the will of the late Dr. Sigmund Freud, exiled Austrian father of psychoanalysis. Estate (to his two sons and daughter): ?15,979 net ($63,916).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Composer Walton, who had hoped to be there on the night, was busy driving an ambulance somewhere in England. Wrote he, mournfully, in a letter to Violinist Heifetz: "I don't know when I will hear the concerto-perhaps never. I have been hoping that the performance will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sitwell to Heifetz | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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