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Word: remnants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back of the German submarine campaign in 1918. Written by M.G.M. publicity man Ralph Wheelwright, who served on a sub chaser in World War I, with the collaboration of retired Navy Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment it stands out from the ruck of service pictures by virtue of its material: as exciting as a periscope rising off starboard, as dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Hyde Park for a weekend rest. With his mother he drove through the rain to St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, where he heard the Rev. Frank R. Wilson denounce Adolf Hitler, read from the Old Testament (Habakkuk, 2:8): ". . . Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Drifting | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...last week. Over the border they roared, 60 strong; up to meet them climbed three spunky Japanese fighters. Machine guns rattled and sheepherders in the Lake Bor district scurried for shelter as flaming Communist planes filled the sky. In a few minutes it was all over, and a pitiful remnant of the Red raiders was tailing for home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTER MONGOLIA: Bombers or Bustards | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Outcome of the long court fight between Jackie Coogan and his mother, Mrs. Lillian Bernstein: an agreement being submitted to court this week, to split the $250,000 remnant of the $4,000,000 which he earned as a child star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...total up to nearly $9,000,000,000. largest since 1929's $10,479,000,000, and more than a billion greater than last year. Though bears suggested that most of this fat income had already been spent in anticipatory or installment buying, leaving only a wrung-out remnant for fall business, joy reigned in most rural hearts as the nine billion dollar harvest moon approached its full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Harvest Moon | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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