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Word: make (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the rise of Adolf Hitler, Germany has been throwing knives at Sweden's press, bludgeoning at Swedish officials to make them muzzle the newspapers. Prince Viktor zu Wied, German Minister in Stockholm, calls almost daily at the Swedish Foreign Office to complain about news stories, editorials, advertisements (even in remote provincial papers) that might offend delicate Nazi sensibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship Over Sweden | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Little Chickadee (Universal) is an inspired coupling of the suggestive art of America's leading mental stripteaser (Mae West) with the comic talents of one of the funniest men on earth (W. C. Fields). Together they make a comedy which is more hilarious than its grab-bag plot about a fancy lady, whose efforts to roll a penniless hair-oil salesman are insufficiently supported by good gags, has any right to be. It also suffers less than usual from the tendency of Comedienne West (who yearns to play Catherine the Great) to take herself too seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...recording answers, do not make any marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answers sheets printed alongside of test. In all, answers sheets for four persons are provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Current affairs Test | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...make the new Russian military and naval domination more palatable to Lithuanians, the Soviet government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Current affairs Test | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Hubbard once toured ten weeks in vaudeville on the same bill with Lauder and Pugilist Jim Corbett. Chatting together one evening over a soft drink, Sir Harry wise cracked: "Mr. Hubbard is the only one of us who wears his make-up on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soap Man | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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