Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built; the natives of much of the route regard the bus as a creation of Mars, judging by the way they stare at the apparition as it roars along the boulevards or chugs through small-town streets; passengers have to trust to luck to find congenial traveling companions, inasmuch as they are put together in groups of five or less in a compartment which...
...German Supreme Court, emasculated and shoved into the background by Adolf Hitler's creation of a "supremer" People's Court (TIME, May 14, 1934 et seq.), last week was reduced to trying a petty divorce case. The husband, an ardent Nazi, accused his wife of disliking Adolf Hitler. She retorted through her lawyers that disliking Adolf Hitler and saying so to one's own husband is not grounds for divorce, appealed the suit to higher & higher courts which sustained the Nazi husband every time. Last week the German Supreme Court gave the Hitlerish husband his freedom, established...
...world where the chief employment of architects is the creation of workers' dwellings for the C.W.A. or chains of Shell gasoline cases, Richard Hunt must be honored for his art alone. Contemplation of his work should be avoided by those with a nostalgia for the good old days when the American capitalist was still on the gold standard and the voice of Wall Street carried more weight in the halls of Congress than the warm blasts from Detroit and Baton Rouge, For, while the masterpieces of the art of Richard Hunt are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tribune...
Analyzing the fiscal policy of the Administration from three of its most significant aspects, the creation of flat credit, the public works program, and relief expenditures, Lewis W. Douglas, in the third Godkin, Lecture, indicated his opinion of the inevitability of inflation. "It cannot be doubted," he said, "that we have reached the point at which deficits are financed by flat credit, and that at some time, just as in all previous experiences, we may reach the point where government deficits will be met by the direct or indirect governmental or central bank printing of flat money. But even...
Maintaining that "Until we have an adequate survey of our intellectual history, we cannot except the world at large to understand the importance of the scholar's contribution to civilization," President Conant yesterday announced the creation of a new Ph.D. degree in the History of Science and Learning...