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Word: continental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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And how does Professor Edward S. Deevey explain it all? Well, says he, during the fourth glacial age the flora and the fauna of England and of Ireland, which at that time were part of the European continent, took the cold and perished. Then the ice melted and the sea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pat or the Pleistocene? | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

When the Spanish Civil War came, Foote went to Spain and fought with the 6th International Brigade. Perhaps it was his near-genius for inconspicuousness that made Foote just the man for the Russians. When British Communists recommended him for a dangerous "assignment" on the Continent, he jumped at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inconspicuous Man | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

The second phase of "the German problem" is economic. Trade between East and West in Europe is meager, clearly to the detriment of both sides. Now that the Foreign Ministers are going to discuss Germany, they will doubtless talk about trade as well. If arrangements can be made to foster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paris Parley | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Ideally, the foreign ministers should decide to give the United Nations power to regulate the German economy for the good of all Europe. A UN commission of economic experts could tell German industry what to produce and where to sent it; a UN commission could state East-West trade flowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Wind | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

Is it wiser to be candid, to "play fair," to leave a whole continent undefended and say: "...see how we trust wou...", thus exposing ourselves to a global catastrophe in case we should get tripped?

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arms and the Poet | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

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