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Word: encompassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...many cruelties and crudities and barbarities of less civilized eras") and saw them menaced by a Hitler victory ("the school of destruction . . . those who seek to dominate hundreds of millions of people in vast continental areas-those who, if successful in that aim will . . . enlarge their wild dream to encompass every human being and every mile of the earth's surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Challenge | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

There is much more to the picture than this short review can hope to encompass. GWTW is certainly the best picture to strike this or any other town in many a day. Everyone should take at least a two-hour look-in on what Hollywood can do if it wants to. Mr. Selznick will have his cost and a handsome profit back before long, and the public will have had some fine entertainment. We think this a more than fair exchange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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