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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Yet even those methods might have been endorsed in a world which had experienced 1914-18 and which sought peace as an end in itself, if Herr Hitler had been willing to accord to others the rights which he claimed for Germany. Revolutions are like avalanches, which once set in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Now about the U. S.-why our country is so goddam pro-British is more than I can understand. I fear our present sentiments would cause Washington, Hamilton and Patrick Henry to blush with embarrassment. We licked the damn English once, now why the hell do we have to pal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Helping Chrysler explain its dilemma to the public was James Lee, a son of the late, famed Press Agent Ivy Lee (whom Laborites still remember as "Poison Ivy"). To the press and to dealers facing a shortage of cars at the start of their new season, Chrysler's President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moonshine & Camouflage | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

When a syphilitic has harbored spirochetes for 15 or 20 years, they finally, migrate to his brain or spinal cord. He finds that his knees buckle under him, his hands jump, he cannot turn or close his eyes without falling. Faced with madness or paralysis, he is generally willing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B for Syphilis | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

The only reason that we haven't released our plan to the press is that Mr. Hooton got there first. If we could only find that schoolboy essay of ours, we'd almost be willing to claim plagiarism. But the public has the story now, and it's just as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOTON'S TOOTIN' | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

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