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Word: following (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warned Britain and France that "real peace" will be impossible to get if they insist on Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland regaining their independence. Nor will Italy, declared Ciano, attempt to create a Balkan Bloc. In a slap at the Allied blockade control he concluded: "Italy continues to follow the conflict, ready to contribute to world peace, but also to defend her shipping and her air lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...were caked in mud, chest high; their beards were bristling with two weeks' growth; and they were ravenously hungry. The peasants, in fleeing before the approach of the Japanese, had taken their pigs, cows, grain and other food with them into the hills where the Japanese could not follow. All through the valley, tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another, and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...rediscovered, Dr. Shull (who was then at the Carnegie Institution's station on Long Island) and the late Dr. Edward Murray East (at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) started their experiments with corn hybridization. The Department of Agriculture, foreseeing laborious years of further experiment ahead, was slow to follow their lead. Thoroughgoing research programs at corn-belt stations did not get under way until 1920, and until 1933 practically no hybrid corn was grown commercially. Not until last year were seed supplies plentiful enough for growers to take their choice of several tested hybrids, instead of having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Santa Claus's Corn | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Politics, History, etc.: Raymond Moley, in "After Seven Years," lets his hair down and tells all about that awful man Roosevelt and his nasty New Deal which refused to follow Moley the Sage. Caviar to Republicans and reactionary Democrats. . . . Hermann Rauschning's "The Revolution of Nihilism" is a bitter attack on Hitler, by one who left the cause. . . . John Gunther goes on patiently revising his excellent and informative "Inside Europe" to fit changing political scene. And his "Inside Asia" does as much for that continent as his first book did for the scene of the current catastrophe. Which is saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Those were the challenges. New follow the fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUR HOME-TOWN PAPER, SIR | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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