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Word: fallen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green winter, many deaths," sages quoted in Minnesota. No snow to speak of had fallen, and Minnesotans still watered their lawns after one of the driest Novembers in memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Driest Fall | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Whose Terms? Ascetic Viscount Halifax, angered by the whole debate, replied for His Majesty's Government: "I entirely decline to see this country put in the dock of international affairs and held in any way to blame comparable to Germany for the tragedy into which the world has fallen. . . . I am quite certain that Hitler is very anxious for peace-on his own terms. I am not sure he is anxious for peace on terms which would make for the peace of Europe. . . . The argument tonight rests on the premise that there exists today a reasonably possible ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fight to the Finish? | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Metal Exchange at more than ?230 per ton. She also upped world production quotas (British-controlled through the International Tin Committee) to 120% of standard. Britain doesn't mean to have a tin shortage in wartime, doesn't mean to give it away because her pound has fallen. Untied, British tin prices last week flew up to ?275 per ton (equivalent to 48? a Ib.), then settled back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Tin Relaxed | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Into an Indianapolis hospital, three years ago, interns carried a screaming two-year-old girl who had just fallen over backwards into a scalding tub of water. Her burns were not deep, but they stretched from her plump shoulders to her knees. She had a 1-to-3 chance to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Water | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Thanks to the radio, an ordinary man can listen to great music in slippered ease. But to see great art he must risk fallen arches tramping through museums. To bring good painting to the family circle, many a low-priced art book, crammed with color reproductions, has lately been published in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 23). Another venture in the way of such home museums was put out last week by William H. Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Home Museum | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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