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Word: attack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undistinguished chronicle of a distinguish life. . . Henry F. Pringle makes "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" a far more appealing and interesting book than one's impressions of the Taft administration would make one suspect. . . . Boris Souvarine's "Stalin" is less a biography than an attack on the man who, in the author's opinion, has sold out the ideals of the Russian Revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Politics, History, etc.: Raymond Moley, in "After Seven Years," lets his hair down and tells all about that awful man Roosevelt and his nasty New Deal which refused to follow Moley the Sage. Caviar to Republicans and reactionary Democrats. . . . Hermann Rauschning's "The Revolution of Nihilism" is a bitter attack on Hitler, by one who left the cause. . . . John Gunther goes on patiently revising his excellent and informative "Inside Europe" to fit changing political scene. And his "Inside Asia" does as much for that continent as his first book did for the scene of the current catastrophe. Which is saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Circling German naval planes, which were said to have driven off an attempted attack by the British submarine, accompanied the Bremen into port...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

Well aware that in the past few years their independence largely depended on the Germans protecting them from the Russians, and vice versa, when the Soviet Union began to attack the Finns last week they took it calmly. President Kyosti Kallio proclaimed a "state of siege." Foreign Minister Erkko observed: "Once and for all, I wish to say in all solemnity that Finland has not wanted war, has no desire to be a threat to anyone and has no desire to become the instrument of a third power." Then they got on with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arise, Finland! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Devotees of pro football are always sure of a good show. Last week's clash between two beautifully coordinated machines was not only a sellout but a hit. For three periods the savage-tackling, pass-intercepting Giants stole the Redskins' tomahawk, crippled their attack and also their attackers, notably ferocious Andy Farkas. Not content with defending their goal line, the Giants brandished their own favorite weapon: in each of the first three periods they scored a field goal, two by Ward Cuff, one by Ken Strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Redskins | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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