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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure of greatness. Greatness lies in the industry, the courage, the character of people. It lies in the intelligence, the education, the moral and spiritual standards of a people. It lies in their love of peace and freedom. All these measures of greatness can be expressed in one word-Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Reaction | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...breadth of her sympathy, and the way she got around. She has been less like the traditional First Lady than like the busy mistress of some great estate, with the whole U. S. as the household. Upstairs, downstairs, morning to night, seven days a week, with never a cross word, she has noted spots of dust on the chandelier, the need for paint on the outlying houses, that dust accumulating in Oklahoma, those new curtains for San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Housekeeper's Week | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Finns thought that by changing their Government thus they could persuade Dictator Stalin to call off his war they were mistaken. Scarcely had they relayed word through to Moscow that a new Government was ready to deal with the Kremlin than out of the clear blue appeared a brand new, ready-made Finnish "People's Government" with a resounding program and declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arise, Finland! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Belatedly last week the German Foreign Office came out with a 3,000-word reply to the famed and bestselling, 195-page British Blue Book on the origins of World War II (TIME, Oct. 2). Its chief point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Scarcely Believable | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...dying for? Unfortunately it is a problem not to be solved by all the logarithms of philosophy, but by the simple arithmetic of each individual heart. Anderson is determined to use logarithms. His people look inward, outward, up, down, in prose, in verse, in gestures, in glances, until every word they utter appears to be spelled with a capital letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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