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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As this mix-up got under way, the shadowy dwellers of the underworld began to appear. Misshapen, grotesque, these subterranean beings range from a philosophic ink salesman to thieves, ham actors, pool sharks, narcotic addicts, bartenders, shyster lawyers, all alike in their casual disloyalty, bitter humor, and command of tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One-Sided World | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Emerson, after drifting in & out of misfortune, losing his first wife and two of his brothers, drifting into & out of tuberculosis, into & out of the ministry, was finding contentment in Concord, where he conversed with simple neighbors, read Oriental literature, wrote his poems of "polar splendor, as of an aurora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Critic's Garland | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

When a writer's imagination is as great as moral indignation, he is likely to produce a fantasy. In an environment of pure invention, heroes are twice as heroic. villains twice as villainous and life's follies doubly absurd. Toward the petard of such celebrated masters of adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indirect Nightmare | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

The accounts of political exiles from Italy and Germany range from atrocity stories to philosophical discussions of dictatorship, seldom give concrete evidence of how Fascism makes its appearance on the plain streets of some familiar environment. Last week an ironic little volume by a onetime member of the Italian Chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Turncoats | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

The School of Public Health will contribute its share in the celebration of the Tercentenary by gathering 15 or American's foremost specialists in public health to speak at a symposium on "The Atmospheric Environment and its Effect upon Man", which will be held from August 24 through August 29...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School of Health | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

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