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...answer questions before they're asked, let's add that Mr. James Puckle took the trouble to explain, 'way back in 1718, that his gun was adapted to "shooting square bullets against-Turks and round bullets against Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Seven weeks later, before M. Bonnet made a speech in the Chamber of Deputies reaffirming the French-Polish alliance, he first called in German Ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck to explain. The Ambassador reported to Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Low-down on Bonnet | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Scottish Women's Peace Movement meeting on the other side of town had decided to fusillade him and get him to say something for their cause. Finally, so many telegrams piled up on Sir John's table that he had to interrupt his speech to explain to his audience. Having done so he demanded sarcastically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Under Fire | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Democracy Readers (for the primer and first six grades) have two able editors-Professor Werrett Wallace Charters of Ohio State University and Miss Prudence Cutright, assistant superintendent of schools in Minneapolis. The readers, as contemporary and homely as a comic strip, are didactic but entertaining. To explain democracy they draw upon the writings of such diverse modern characters as Edgar Guest, J. Edgar Hoover, Amelia Earhart, Dorothy Thompson and Pare Lorentz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Democracy Readers | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...stars in his spare time. Piggy Warburg announced his partnership in an official release tracing his career as a "worker in every branch of the Baltimore & Ohio," as stoker in Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co. power plant, vice president in the Bank of Manhattan Co., and philanthropist - failed to explain his interest in brokerage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Young Men, Old Names | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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