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Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ottawa County, Okla. Its battered shacks, pieced together out of tar paper and packing cases, nestle close to glittering mountains of "chat," or quartz dust, the "offal of the mines."On blustery days, wind whips and swirls the stinging quartz dust through the streets and into the houses. Constant inhalation of quartz dust causes silicosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Zinc Stink | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...have constant relations not only with my own organization in Germany but also with numerous soldiers and members of the Nazi Party," Otto Strasser told the Paris-Soir. "I can tell you that Germany is ready for an anti-Hitler revolution but it will take time. Higher officers of the Army are too subservient to Hitler to take part. But the Nazis have many enemies among the colonels, majors and subordinate officers. For a revolt to be successful in the Reich, three things will be needed. First, Germans who still believe in Hitler must feel the horrors of war; second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Space for Death | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Finis? To poor China, all this was gloomy news. For every step which brings Russia and Japan closer together hasten-China's fall. Soon and late, Russia has been China's best friend-more constant and generous than Britain, the U. S. or France. But no one knows better than the Chungking Government that the Russian bear has learned how to somersault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anti-Pro-Comintern | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

When Joseph Barnes gave up his job in Berlin and went home for a rest (weary of constant Nazi threats to muzzle him), Herald Tribune editors debated long over Beach Conger's youth and inexperience, finally gave him Barnes's place. Blond, meticulous, with close-cropped hair and thick-lensed spectacles, Conger looks like a respectable German official. Within two hours after his arrival in Berlin he had telephoned more people than Joseph Barnes knew. Most of them were young Nazis who had once been his schoolmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Host Angered | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Mira went on to explain why the army has always been so prominent in Spanish politics. "Constant invasions of Spain," he said, "made a strong army necessary, and the army became so powerful that it has always remained an important factor in Spanish politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA SHOWS WEAKNESS OF FRANCO'S REGIME | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

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