Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this morning. Motes dance in the sunbeams, and the Vagabond dances behind a screen as he dons his trousers. Water tinkles against the sides of the basin as he sluices his gnarled face in the limpid pool. He dashes through the room, adding touch after touch to his creation of sartorial ineffability. His cutaway in place, he adds a final caressing stroke to his ascot, bathes its center in the refulgent aura of a heavy gold pin, and descends the innumerable stairs...
...Creation of statthalters or viceroys to rule the States by appointment of Chancellor Hitler and responsible directly to Wilhelmstrasse...
...under military domination. Bull's-eye of his attack was the $1-per-day pay scale, which he feared would lower the wages of unskilled labor in private industry. Said he: "We cannot believe that the time has come when the United States should supply relief through the creation of a form of compulsory military service...
Founded by Copperman Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh, the Fellowships continue to afford security for a year of work and creation, but depression has forced the number of winners from 77 two years ago to 57 last year, 38 this year. Poet George Dillon (The Flowering Stone) won a Pulitzer Prize while still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise...
...another sought to discover the secret of political power; still another, an offspring like the rest of the old Philosophy, attempted to trace the laws of human thought. Now one of the results of this great modern tendency toward specialization has been, in regard to the Social Sciences, the creation as special educational disciplines of History, Economics, Government, and Psychology--these four--and a fifth, which aims at surveying society as a whole: Sociology. This last is not so ambitious as to attempt the work of all the special social sciences and more besides; it too, specializes on certain fundamental...