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Word: commit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welfare of he Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, blonde British Naziphile. When war broke, she was stranded in Munich beyond closed frontiers (TIME, Sept. 18). Since then various reports have trickled out of Germany: that Miss Mitford had quarreled with her admirer, Adolf Hitler, had attempted to commit suicide by overdosing herself with sleeping potion (which Berlin denied), that she had had a severe attack of double pneumonia and was confined to a Munich nursing home. Latest bulletin: from Russian Prince Nicholas Orloff, quoted last week in the London Sunday Dispatch, that she shot herself in Munich the day France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...face each other, in the fountain's splashing centre, they must be set in place, unveiled. Coming to do the first, stocky, soft-voiced Carl Milles, 64, ran smack into an argument about the second. Sculptor Milles, who had refused to fig-leaf his statues, also refused to commit himself on whether the fountain should be unveiled as soon as finished or not until next spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tempest in a Fountain | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Commit to memory its topography...

Author: By Jack Wllner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From a silly romantic, Mrs. Pawle changes to a sinister slut, experimenting shamelessly with Alan's emotions, goading him to a peak of frenzy in which he attempts to commit murder. He is let off with awful humiliation in her husband's diabolical revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...official reaction to Hitler's speech. Said J. Stalin's Izvestia this week: "One may respect or hate Hitlerism, just as any other system of political views. This is a matter of taste. But to undertake war for 'the annihilation of Hitlerism' means to commit an act of criminal folly in politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planless Peace | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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