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Word: centredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Published last week were three books which, utterly divergent in most respects, all operated in a common, powerful, magnetic field. Each centred in a Messiah.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Messiahs | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Within its thick walls is a plaza some 600 yd. in diameter. Ceilings of its turrets are reinforced concrete ten feet thick, low to the ground like the Maginot Line. Speculation as to what manner of weapon could paralyze the defenders of such a place centred on two possibilities: 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TACTICS: Nerve Gas? | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Sound works of fiction centred in the Southwest are few & far between. The grandeur of that country, its translucent and heady atmosphere, have had a superficializing effect on many artists and writers. Of the few serious writers able to work in New Mexico with a steady mind, Paul Horgan is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stories of New Mexico | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

On April 7 there will be an annular eclipse of the sun. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon's image, though centred against the sun's disk, is too small to cover it entirely, leaving a ring of bright light around the edge. The images of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eclipses of 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Aside from the ill omen which sailormen believe follows changing a warship's name, interest centred on the "bigger" Deutschland, which must be one of the four 35,000-ton (perhaps 40,000) battleships which Germany is feverishly putting together. Two of these ships, launched last February and April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: New Deutschland | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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