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Word: incidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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For booming, trading, railroading Atlanta, the War Between the States was a cosmic incident but not the end of the world. Savannah and Decatur (doomed to be a mere suburb), Macon and Augusta might mourn the life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

For 20 years Joseph Vincent Connolly plugged for Hearst, always hard, sometimes brilliantly. He signed up Bob ("Believe It Or Not") Ripley, saw that Popeye starred in Elzie Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre, sent H. R. Knickerbocker to Vladivostok in 1931 because Knickerbocker, long before it broke, smelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gorty Up | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 14 (UP)-At a Massachusetts Institute of Technology meeting which was almost without incident, Communist Earl Browder told a capacity audience today that by a modern miracle the League of Nations " has risen from the tomb and speaks with a boldness and vigor it never had when alive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWDER'S SPEECH CAUSES NO STIR IN AUDIENCE AT TECH | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

It was after 10 o'clock when the instructions of delegates in regard to policy came up. Perlman read and argued for the following resolution: "Resolved. That the Harvard Student Union condemns the Russian aggression against Finland, and at the same time condemns those who would use this incident in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condemnation of Soviet Union Result of Stormy HSU Meeting As Gottlieb Is Made President | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

Tuesday Comrade Molotov handed to Baron Aano Yrjo-Koskinen, Finnish Minister in Moscow, an emphatic reply to Finland's reply. The Finnish note, he said, reflected the "profound hostility on the part of the Government of Finland toward the Soviet Union and carries to the extreme the crisis in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Rabbit Bites Bear | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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