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Word: abyss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. . . . It is true that you have the Italians as allies. We had them last time and we know all about them. . . . It is your Führer, and not my old Prime Minister, who will give the signal to attack. . . . Perhaps you will recognize in time the abyss toward which you are being led. . . . Until next week, with best regards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear German Reader | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Charlotte, Branwell's death at 31 meant "the untimely, dreary extinction of what might have been a bright and shining light." Emily loved him most. "Drive me mad," she had prayed bitterly in Wuthering Heights, "but do not leave me in an abyss where I cannot find you." Her own death came twelve weeks after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother, Sisters | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures by huddling together, nervously loquacious, at the edge of an abyss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: KNOWLEDGE FOR WHAT? | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

This week Dr. Lynd joined the ranks of planners who hope to save men from the abyss by a big blueprint. He published a book with a startling title: Knowledge for What?* In it, Professor Lynd proposed that the U. S., having failed to get a plan from educators, preachers, politicians, businessmen or engineers, be brought to order by social scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: KNOWLEDGE FOR WHAT? | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...completely scalped. From the bottom of the chamber sprouts a sticky brown-black beard which runs up the side several feet--a beard of ooze and slime which has spread over the iron skin of the globe in the weeks it lay on the clammy bosom of this watery abyss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

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