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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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As an example: my good friend, the late Matti Helenius, who had published several books under the name Matti Helenius, was well known under that name all over Europe. He sought to avoid confusion by attaching his Finnish family name to his accepted name, Helenius, and thus became Matti Helenius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Up to now, astronomers in bourgeois democracies have not suspected that there might be a political cast to the curvature of space and the size of the universe. Last week, however, the U. S. journal Science reprinted parts of a fiery resolution recently adopted by the Kremlin's official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hostile, Revolting | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

No Arms, No Armour has, for all that, the limited distinction of being the best novel about the British Army during the late peace (1928-30, precisely) that has yet appeared. Author Henriques, 34, is a major in the regular army. He writes with authority and irony of the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tale of a Tubby | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Last week Washington correspondents hammering out their forecasts could not agree on a name for the '30s as apt as the title of the Tragic Era had been for Reconstruction. But their prophecies and backward looks combined to give the raw material that would enable future historians to characterize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Decade's End | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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