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Last week a diplomatic drama as strange as a Wagnerian opera unrolled in the Bavarian Alps. The setting was Wagnerian-Führer Adolf Hitler's Berghof at Berchtesgaden, a mountain hideaway 15 miles from music-haunted Salzburg, 600 miles from Danzig, 1,300 miles from Moscow, and 3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Weird War | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Many a suburban and rural neighborhood around New York City is haunted by a big black nightmare: the possibility that one day someone with a name like "Wonderful Peace" or "Beautiful Sweet" will appear in the district, lay cash on the line for a nice piece of property. Then followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Angels Over Newport | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

What Stalin says of world affairs makes news wherever he says it. To a war-haunted Europe, the Soviet Union has ceased to be the home of Soviets, of Five-Year Plans and collective farms, of propaganda campaigns and celebrations over the building of blast furnaces-it has become a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dreams and Realities | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

The houses are haunted

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thinking Test | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Examinees were asked to say whether certain statements were consistent with, irrelevant to or inconsistent with the poem, e.g.: The houses are haunted by ghosts; drunkenness is a terrible vice; respectable people are happier than drunken sailors; "red weather" occurs only at sunset; there is only one drunken sailor; life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thinking Test | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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