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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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> The Government introduced in the House of Commons a bill which will authorize credits of $300,000,000 to Britain's allies. Poland will receive the lion's share of the credits (one estimate had it that the Polish loan would amount to $200,000,000), but Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: We Have Guaranteed | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

For a few days last week the British Government persuaded itself that the worst of the Tientsin affair was over, that the Japanese, who had agreed to a conference at Tokyo, were willing to settle it as an isolated problem without discussing the fundamental issues-Britain's rights in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Necessary Action | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile, under the pressure of the New Deal and public opinion, the entire Colorado coal field had been unionized. Paradoxically, it hurt Rocky Mountain Fuel. Union men who once had demanded R. M. F. coal, were now willing to buy from any union mine. R. M. F. sales leveled off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: R. M. F. | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

It was not the first time that Liberal M. P.s had complained that one-sixth of Scotland, or about 3,400,000 acres, was devoted to deer. Once, in 1913, when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was a project afoot to force the deer-park-owning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Welshing Scot | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

His friends last week were willing to bet that Jack Crocker, no snob, would get on well at snobbish Groton. One of his chief problems will be to satisfy old Groton boys, whose sons have always had first chance to be admitted to Groton, and still make it a representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jack for Peabo | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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