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Word: disconnectedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporter Miller had aimed to novelize the waterfront characters. Six years these novel people came & went, but all he could do was to celebrate their passage in front-page reports. In atonement to them, and to himself, he has collected what disconnected stories merited his personal front page. One of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waterfront Pages | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

In filming "Around the World in Eighty Minutes" Douglas Fairbanks has made the most entertaining travelogue that the Playgoer has ever soon. The photography alone would recommend it highly, but this is only part. Mr. Fairbanks' running-fire comment, through starting out somewhat in the Graham McNamee vein, grows better...

Author: By G. G. D., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/19/1932 | See Source »

This somewhat Utopian ideal could, of course, never be fully consummated in the nature of things. A minority of lecturers would continue to be talking text-books. A minority of students would take advantage of the new system to cut, just as they take advantage of the present system to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modern Archimedes | 11/27/1931 | See Source »

While reporters rushed with this news to telephone booths, the Royal family emerged?not from their private car, a hot box had forced it to be disconnected at Avila?but from an ordinary third-class coach. While they were being fawned and wept over by Spanish Royalists, a train pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Red, Purple & Yellow | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

After he had severed all the autonomic nerves which might obscure his research, he shook the cat's forepaws. Nothing happened. He shook its head. Nothing happened. He shook the hind quarters. At that the heart, whose nerves had been disconnected, started beating faster. He pinched the veins and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sympathin: Visceral Hormone | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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