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Word: whether (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whether he was kindly knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Strange Garret | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...known definitely whether Harvard will enter a relay team, but if so, Coach Ulen will probably pick an upper classman to till out a team with these three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Harvard Team to Enter Swimming Meet to Compete in Roxbury Tonight-Almost All Members of Group are Freshmen | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...revealed that there has been a great excess of applicants for this type of room rather than for single suites. Since there are in Dunster House 110 single suites and 62 double ones, and so many more members of the Class of 1931 have applied together, it was asked whether or not room-mates will be willing to live in adjacent rooms rather than outside the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER HOUSE DOUBLE ROOMS ARE OVERAPPLIED | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

Unfriendly Act? As was later admitted to Washington correspondents, the Stimson notes were drafted when their author did not know whether to believe conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes were bombing Chinese villages. He meant well, meant to stop any possibility of slaughter. But to Comrade Litvinov, who knew from his direct wire to the peace parley that China was yielding and Russia winning peace on her own terms, the U. S. note seemed at best an intrusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Scorn for Stimson | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...capital, Nanking, no one knew whether or not to believe reports that President Chiang had resigned. Martial law was in effect. Several mutinous army divisions were menacing the capital. China was another name for Anarchy. In the vast city of Shanghai, peopled by nearly two million Chinafolk, it was impossible to take a train or send a telegram to Nanking, Peiping or Hankow, "Chicago of China." Wires and rails had been cut by men with guns who might be described as soldiers, mutineers, revolutionaries or bandits as one pleased. They all looted indiscriminately. Chaos grew so complete that leading Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 400 Million Humiliations | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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