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Word: kind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When you are with these highly professional soldiers, men who have been fighting this kind of guerrilla warfare most of their lives, you cannot help feeling unbounded confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...parade.* He pointed out that while losses of British merchant shipping declined in October to half the tonnage lost in September, and again in November to two-thirds of October, neutrals last month lost four times what they lost in September. This, he said, "is indeed a strange kind of warfare for the German Navy to engage in. When driven off the shipping of their declared enemy, they console themselves by running amuck among the shipping of neutral nations. This fact should encourage neutrals to charter their ships to Great Britain for the duration of the war, when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Churchill v. Chain Belt | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Never long absent from it, the Bard has his ups & downs on Broadway. He starts off with the box-office liability of being highbrow, with the box-office asset of commanding a small but steady audience made up largely of: 1) cultists -the kind of people who (depending on their age) have seen every Hamlet from Booth's, or Forbes-Robertson's, or Barrymore's, to Maurice Evans'; 2) seekers after the "worthwhile," who dutifully imbibe Shakespeare as they swallow Beethoven and spinach; 3) school children, offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Bard and the Box Office | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Bert Lahr is at his best when he goes royal, wrinkling his sub-Bourbon nose and speaking French as though afraid it might bounce back and hit him. As for Ethel Merman, if she is a little less than kin to Du Barry, she is more than kind-makes her, in fact, the most likable royal trollop that ever pranced behind footlights. More of an 18th-Century tomboy than a glamor girl, Merman booms and torches away in her train-announcer's contralto, jouncing her personality all over the stage, giving the King the oo-la-lahr, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Medical directors will receive "nominal salaries." Doctors will be paid a lump sum every three months, based on the number of patients they have treated and the kind of services they have ren dered. They will treat patients in their offices until the organization can build a clinic. If the plan prospers, the directors hope to engage a staff of doctors for full-time services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Service, Inc. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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