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Word: insularity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interior the Bureau of Insular Affairs (War) for consolidation with the Division of Territories and Island Possessions; Bureau of Fisheries (Commerce) and Bureau of Biological Survey (Agriculture), to lump conservation agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reorganization II | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader into the actual conflict with the Spaniard, he entirely forgets to write of the folks back home and embarks on an inconsequential play-by-play account of Shafter's insular campaign and Dewey's tugboat race to Manila...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...Golden Gate International Exposition on manmade Treasure Island at San Francisco (see p. 17) he said: "America's newest insular possession . . .is an outstanding example of territorial extension without aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...week he worked his way through New York's City College into the Harvard Law School, which graduated him with highest honors in 1906. After a spell of moneymaking in the Stimson office and three years in Washington as law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, in 1914 Star Pupil Frankfurter was invited back to Harvard to teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: A Place for Poppa | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Aryan" ignorance, which presumed that, in European fashion, a Minister of Interior has charge of police and the suppression of crime. Mr. Ickes, who looks after public lands, forests, territorial and insular government, etc., has no authority to look into skulduggery such as Coster-Musica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Hairy Man | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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