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Word: disconnectedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Langer must know how to make a coherent picture out of thousands of disconnected facts, how to critically appraise his field, and how to acquaint others with his knowledge. Only a flesh and blood individual, trained by flesh and blood teachers, can knead the plastic and indigestible thing called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INCUBATING LANGERS | 5/26/1936 | See Source »

ARTHUR TRAIN has delighted the Saturday Evening Post's 3,000-000 readers for many months with his inimitable Mr. Tutt; thousands more have enjoyed his novels. But all of these admirers, we are afraid, will be disappointed in "Manhattan Murder," the story of a man and a girl, plus...

Author: By S. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

The plot of this latest release is weak in many places. The trailer announcing it was perfectly fair in promising that only the detective know the answer to the questions presented. The audience was able to pick out the logical villain but even the denouement at the end is almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/7/1936 | See Source »

Sibelius was so besieged by well-wishers last week that he had his telephone disconnected. He went into Helsinki for his birthday concert attended by 8,000 adoring Finns and the Premiers of Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. His surprise of the week came when he heard the result of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sibelius at 70 | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

Dailies which subscribe to the North American Newspaper Alliance were privileged one day last week to publish half a column of disconnected words. Numbering 600, the words comprised the vocabulary of Carol Lynn Rowe, 20-month-old daughter of a Creston, Iowa dentist. Carol thus knew five times as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigious Crop | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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