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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press that most French women, unlike their British sisters, have no time for flossy uniforms, showy organizations. From the French point of view, the fact that Britain still has less than 1,000,000 men under arms, whereas France has more than 5,000,000, means that as yet British women simply have no idea of what war can mean in feminine sacrifice and struggle to support home and children while father holds the Maginot Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Vagabondage of Dreams." Since World War II has caused few casualties in France, the famed chateaux of the Loire are not yet converted into hospitals as they were in World War I. French women last week were actually having a good deal harder time in every way than French troops at the front. In a broadcast to women on their wartime duties which could have been made only in France, Poet-Playwright Jean Giraudoux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Each team had won eight games, lost one and held one another to a 0-to-0 tie in their only previous meeting this season. The Giants, best defensive team in the league, had been beaten only once in its last 23 games. Yet they were the underdogs, for the Redskins were an awesome tribe. Led by slick Sam Baugh and Frank Filchock (who between them had completed 94 out of 160 passes) and Anvil Andy Farkas (whose ferocious running had scored eleven touchdowns), they had chalked up 235 points this season-101 in their last three games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Redskins | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...nine games, while it rolled up a total of 205 points. Close on its cleated heels were Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (Southwest Conference champion) and Cornell (pride of the Ivy League), both undefeated and untied, but scored-on. Powerful Southern California, undefeated but tied by Oregon, has yet to play the University of California at Los Angeles before it can clinch the Pacific Coast Conference championship, and a date at the Rose Bowl. Other football tops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football Review | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...scientists have watched Chicago grow from a Midwestern town to a sprawling metropolis. They have studied numerous facets of the city -real estate, money markets, stock trading, light & power, men's clothing, furniture, bakeries, pottery, industrial location, voting habits, youth delinquency, Negro families, etc. Perhaps Chicago has not yet profited much from this scrutiny, but it may do so eventually,* and so may many another city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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