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Word: answering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doell mounted the porch steps, rang the bell. Nobody answered. The front shades were drawn. He rapped sharply on the glass door-panels; still no answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Case of the Bedroom Slippers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Marshal Wu, striking a table with his fist, cried: "Not only the Japanese compel me, but God also! Well, the answer is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buddha's Verdict | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...then ascended a sacred platform, knelt before the benign, adipose image, prayed for divine guidance in drawing an answer from a set of specially prepared lots. As he was praying, the altar attendants, who were obviously in the pay of Japanese, stacked the lots, so that Marshal. Wu drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buddha's Verdict | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Next day came an apparent answer to Völkischer Beobachter's prayer. In Moscow Communist International,official organ of the Communist Party, warned Rumania that she had better conclude an immediate pact with Russia, similar to those granted by the Baltic States and refused by unlucky Finland, and turn over the lost province of Bessarabia. In Moscow, New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye said he had learned "from a highly qualified observer" that Rumania did not even intend to defend the province-had no fortifications and not a single soldier there, was evacuating Rumanian businesses from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Some day when an audience has cooperated fully with me in giving a good performance, I am going to answer their applause for my concertizing by applauding them for good listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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