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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following its publication, Huxley edited a pacifist pamphlet, in great part a restatement of the book. But what else has he done, what is he doing now? Is he by any chance preparing a novel, foreshadowed in Eyeless in Gaza, of an unattached man? There is no such character in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

From then on, Fritz Mannheimer was a regular E. Phillips Oppenheim character. Mysterious (few people even knew his name), powerful, grasping, he began to formulate the financial policies of nations and to get fat. At one time he worked simultaneously for the German, Austrian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Yugoslav and Rumanian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Post-War Story | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Louisiana State University is a growing institution. It is a school created over the massive pillars of Union, Justice and Confidence. Its student body and alumni are as proud of it as are the ones of Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge. The wrongdoings of a single man could not make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

From Hollywood, Dr. Buchman journeyed to Del Monte, opened a "World Assembly" for MRA, attended by 2,000 delegates from 25 nations. Said he: "We must possess some superior quality, a quality of living that rises above resentment, jealousy, greed and points of view, because all these may keep us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA in Hollywood | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Sylvia Russell, the captain's wife, in this sharply competent book, hated her daughter Hervey's easy-mannered husband because he was without character, "the most damning thing a Yorkshireman can say about man or woman." This leisurely, detailed portrait of Sylvia's married life shows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bittersweet | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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