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Word: fanaticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Browne's viewpoint is skeptical from the start; says he: "The stand taken by the present author is influenced by the most recent school of New Testament criticism . . . which maintains that the Gospels are valid sources only for the history of the Primitive Church, not for the life of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rise & Decline* | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

The German press, virtually without exception, was thundering against Chancellor Brüning's ''emergency decree," issued in his absence by President von Hindenburg. Its upping of the income tax, gasoline tax. tobacco tax: its slashing of the wages of state employes and the unemployment dole; finally an impression that ''Iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Ballyhooer's Return | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Much was made of the suggestion that Kassay was working in league with others, all directed by Soviet Russia. But both Navy Department and Department of Justice disposed of him as a "fanatic." Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle, naval aircraft inspector, and Dr. Karl Arnstein, famed chief engineer & vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: On an Akron Catwalk | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Everybody admitted John Durken was a good man, a good farmer, had done a lot for the little rural community of Midland; but nobody liked him. He was closemouthed, closefisted, a hard worker, a hard master. He wanted to better Midland, give it a Methodist church, a bank, a grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy of a Preacher* | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Abraham Lincoln, having been reinterred 16 times, had reason last week to turn once more in his grave. Just before his 122nd birthday last week there was published his 112th biography, Lincoln: The Man? by Poet Edgar Lee Masters. Unlike his Illinois neighbor Poet Carl Sandburg, whose Lincoln biography is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lincolnoclast | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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