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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the second place, Marx vacillates in his definition of "national defense." At times he appears to accept this as meaning more defense of continental United States proper, and at times he seems to include defense of this hemisphere. He himself in apparently committed to the former view, but many...

Author: By Allan D. Ecker, | Title: LATEST "PROGRESSIVE" DEALS CHIEFLY WITH U. S. DEFENSE | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

But Britain was not to be put off. The small islands might be overwhelmed by superior force, but not by lack of readiness or confusion under propaganda. They might be surprised by gas or a new weapon, but not by the fact of an attack. The vision of one old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: No Longer a Bluff | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

The childless glue king's will, 19 words written in 1910, left half the U. S. animal glue industry to his widow, Alice E. (Woodward) Wilhelm. Last week, as the sorrow and confusion in the company subsided, she was elected chairman of Peter Cooper Corp.'s board. Chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Glue King Dead | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

The magnitude of world confusion could only be realized when the thousands of press dispatches, the millions of radio murmurings, and all the display of mute, invisible facts and forces were gathered into bald proximity. The persistent, patient rapping of Japan at the doors of French Indo-China (see p...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ominous Presentiments | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Fellowe was Hungarian Pianist Franz Liszt. One of the women was the Countess Marie d'Agoult. She had caused quite a scandal by leaving her husband and running away with Liszt after they had wept together over one of those novels by George Sand in which the heroines always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roses & Cabbages | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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