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Word: chaotically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen miles from Patna all the travelers were shocked into full consciousness, many of them for only a few seconds. With a thunder of shattered wood, a shriek of torn steel, the train and seven cars took a head dive over the embankment, settled in a chaotic mess. The first two cars were completely telescoped, buried beneath the two that followed. From the two rear cars, which had stayed miraculously on the rails, leaped frenzied Europeans to behold a scene described by one as "like any battlefield." Relief workers rushing to the spot dragged more than 100 dead and mangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Like Any Battlefield | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...further impression created by your article is that hotel accommodation in London is virtually unobtainable, and that conditions are chaotic. Here again I beg to correct you, as my company has a good supply of medium-class space available at prices not ridiculously high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

After so much Hollywood hubbub it was logical to suppose that The Good Earth would turn out as chaotic as its preparation and as superficial as the novel was deep. Instead, it emerged as a real cinema epic, faithful in spirit, plot and acting to its forebear, sure to rank as one of the great pictures of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: The Good Earth | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Gloomed he: "The world is in such a chaotic state and conditions change so rapidly that it is impossible to formulate plans with confidence that they can be carried out. . . . Penalties in one country are followed by retaliation in others and we are really engaged in a commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gloomy Singer | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...absorbed the confusion and hysteria of the Newsreels, they are likely to feel that they have received a vivid cross-section report on some U. S. history in a manner neither novelists nor historians supply. They may question whether ordinary private life during that period was as confused and chaotic as Dos Passos represents it, whether he has not overshot his mark in bringing so many of his characters to violent ends, so many of their hopes to tragic frustrations. But they can admire without reservation his narrative style, bare but not bleak, naturalistic but not dull, and his cunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Historian | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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