Search Details

Word: worked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...peace ship"* tried to stop World War I before Christmas 1915, told reporters: "They don't dare have a war and they know it. It's all a big bluff." About Hitler: "I don't know Hitler personally, but at least Germany keeps its people at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Divorced. Judith Anderson (real name, Frances Margaret Anderson), 41, Australian-born Broadway actress (Strange Interlude, Family Portrait), from Benjamin Harrison Lehman, University of California English professor and minor novelist (best-known work: Wild Marriage); in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Even as a democrat, General Carpenter will have a wide command, for his 27,000 subordinate officers use 104 languages, work in 97 countries. Throughout the world the Army has an estimated 3,000,000 active members (240,000 in the U. S.), over $100,000,000 worth of property. Primarily a religious body, its evangelism marches hand in hand with its social work. An Army officer's commission is legal U. S. equivalent to a minister's ordination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Democrat for Autocrat | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Before the communion rail in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia's grimy Kensington industrial district last week knelt 80 out-of-work hosiery workers. They joined curly-haired Rector David Carl Colony in a prayer of thanksgiving. They listened to his sermon: "Remember . . . you have not arrived by yourselves but with the help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Entrepreneur of God | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...justice just without having to outsmart the law. Taking his Prisoner at the Bar (published in 1905 but still in demand) as a basis, he drew again on his police and court experience to produce From the District Attorney's Office, a popular account of justice, how it works and how it fails, with liberal proposals for making it work better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Law's Delay | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | Next