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Word: returned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Till you've conquered all lands, both East and West. So Egypt is yours; your ambition then ranges, And bears you away to the Tigris and Ganges. But when crown'd with success, and with glory you tire us, What's left to be done when return'd to Epirus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

After a hard morning in the class-room, the booth-dwellers return to their habitat feeling at case with the familiar wooden support behind them. No true "jellier" ever sits at a table in the middle of the floor, only booths give him that protected feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

Fist Over Latvia. So pleased was J. Stalin with his Estonian success that the Dictator told that country's luckless Foreign Minister to stop at Riga on his way home and "invite" the Latvian Government to yield to Russia in return for trade favors, a naval base at Libau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow's Week | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

This week the Soviet Dictator, giving the panicky North Baltic not an instant's respite, set the Moscow radio to suggesting that Finland and Lithuania too "lease" bases to Russia in return for "trade." A German correspondent in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, flashed reports that its Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys would shortly speed to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow's Week | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...probable re-enactment-only on a more terrible scale of the 1917 debacle. To the world as a whole, such a peace would be a boon from the gods. It would forestall a war which is beyond comprehension in its savage intensity, and which could well presage a return to barbarism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE IN OUR TIME | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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