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Word: nation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubted. . . . I do not believe that at present there is evidence enough to justify the course recommended by Lord Darnley. . . . I am always prepared to negotiate. . . . It does not need much imagination to see the damage which some of the speeches made tonight are capable of inflicting on the nation's cause...

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

...came, Fritz Thyssen, his number up, slipped over the Swiss border for an "indefinite stay." Last week the final break was made. The Nazis confiscated the vast Thyssen estate. The personal holdings of the Party's first big sugar daddy were classed as "inimical to the State and nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Daddy's End | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...seven-man Federal Council elected by its Parliament. Each year the Council gives one of its members the title of President. Chosen last week from the newly elected Council: onetime (1934) President Marcel Pilet-Golaz,* 49, lawyer, neutral (educated in both France and Germany), lieutenant colonel in the nation's civilian Army (whose 500,000 men have been under arms since September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Second Term | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...urging of Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. (see p. 7), last Sunday was made Finland Day in many a U. S. State and city. The nation's most famed Protestant preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, composed a prayer for the occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Finland | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...every station, from diplomatic dignitaries down. Only a few days before Germany marched, Earle visited Ambassador Biddle in Poland, and his account of feudal Poland is the high point of the book. It shows clearly the political set-up under which the Polish peasant labored and the nation's reaction to the inevitable annihilation ahead...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

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