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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimplecute is a word formed from the initials of the paper's original motto: "Join Industry Manufacturing Planting Labor Energy Capital in Unity Together Ever-lastingly.'' Do other readers approve of its sound and proposed meaning enough to sponsor its admission into the language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...return of War-great General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff from the obscurity of a suspect crackbrain to official sanity just as sound as any other German's nowadays, and also to official greatness, was accomplished last week by Adolf Hitler. He and Ludendorff conspired together for the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, marching down the street at the head of their henchmen toward Power- they hoped. When police began shooting to disrupt the putsch, they carefully did not aim at Hero Ludendorff who walked through their fusillade iron-faced, nor was Herr Hitler shot. Knowing that the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Heathen & Hitler | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Papal Ogre in Spain, the News Chronicle's reasonably objective Geoffrey Cox takes time out to report that considering that he is a Catholic" he is really not such a bad lot: "At night, very late, there would come stealing faintly into the ha11 of the Embassy a sound which I am sure must have perplexed the [Spanish] guards at the gate. . . . Behind closed doors Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes was play-the bagpipes. He plays them, I understand, excellently. It always struck me that, if the Embassy should be attacked, our best defense would not be to gather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Glad Reds | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...comrades scattered, missing or "reformed." A friendly peasant hid Spina in a shed, an old schoolmate had just enough courage to get him a disguise, send him off to a mountain village. Garbed as Don Paolo, a priest on vacation. Spina slowly got his bearings again, gradually began to sound out the political temper of his neighbors. Against his stubborn will he finally had to admit that ignorance and fear had drained all the political temper out of them. Here & there he found an old comrade still willing to work for freedom, or a youngster who suspected that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Italia Irredenta | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Worthy as was U. S. Rubber Co.'s progress in 1936, Goodyear's was even better. Profits last year were $10,831,000, compared with $5,452,000 in 1935. Old Harvey Samuel Firestone's sound Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. earned $9,142,000 for its fiscal year ending last October, its best year since 1927. No. 4 Rubber company is B. F. Goodrich Co., which last year earned $7,319,000, compared with $3.429,000 the previous year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Caoutchouc Capers | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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