Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American international businesses and banks are very much aware of Spain's recent progress and great potential. TIME renders a public service when it informs the American people of contemporary Spain, and enables them to modify impressions of the 1930s which have been outmoded by the exhilarating changes...
...Nazis were shrewd enough to put Germany's passion to use in the Hitler Youth during the 1930s; yet walking remains a romantic refuge from politics and society in general. Many Germans ramble alone. Others prize the mystic shared experience of striding arm in arm, verbunden (joined together) with a dear friend, facing the little obstacles of the way, starting together at strange noises, wondering what Grimm monster lurks in the forest shadows. "Walking invigorates the soul," they explain. "Things seem to sort themselves out and fall into place during a good walk...
...perhaps, but his wind-and motor-driven mobiles that followed in the '30s became the first recognized aerial expressions of art in motion. Giacometti's Suspended Ball of 1931, Brancusi's Fish on a rotating pedestal of 1926, Thomas Wilfred's lumias of the 1930s with swimming projections of colored light-all these were what Watt's apocryphal teakettle was to the steam turbine...
Died. John Joseph Broderick, 72, the toughest cop on Broadway in the turbulent 1930s; of a heart attack; in Middletown...
...Bertrand Russell tried to eliminate fallacies by using an artificial language of symbols into which the truths of science and ordinary descriptive statements could be translated in order to test their accuracy. The "Vienna Circle" of logical positivists-who carried their ideas to Britain and the U.S. in the 1930s-declared that the criterion of meaning was verifiability; if the meaning of a statement could not be verified by empirical procedures, it was literally nonsense. But, as Russell pointed out, this criterion was itself a philosophical principle...