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Word: fluids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ-I don't know. . . . Most people are dumb anyway. I don't try to convert them. I only try to wake them up so they can find out what life is really all about." 2) Jiddu Krishnamurti has yet to make a clean break with the fluid tenets of the Theosophical Society which, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, aimed to form "a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity." encourage the study of comparative religion and philosophy, investigate "the unexplained laws of nature [including reincarnation] and the powers latent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Singles--Thackera (H) defeated Guibord 6-4, 6-4; Glidden (H) defeated Msn 0-6, 6-1, 6-3; Helmholz (H) defeated Anderson 6-4, 6-1; Bentley (H) defeated Harty 6-8, 7-5, 6-2; Robertson (H) defeated Thomas 6-0, 6-1; Fluid (H) defeated Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH DOWNED 8-1 BY CRIMSON RACKETMEN | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Mistress of a popular Paris salon, Mme Cuttoli found it easy to reach her painters, hard to convince them that their fluid daubings could be fittingly reproduced in silk and wool. Her first convert, five years ago, was Georges Rouault, onetime apprentice in a stained-glass factory. But the painters were simple to manage compared to the weavers. Those sensible artisans, with six centuries of conventional design and solid, forthright colors behind them, threw up their hands in horror at Rouault's grotesque figures and great splashings of brick red and blatant blue. "Mais non!" cried they. "We will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Twentieth Century Tapestries | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Outstanding performance is Bennie Bartlett's as the bad boy who at a crucial moment squirts fire extinguisher fluid out of his pistol into the gangster's eyes. Aged 9, Bartlett, in the Hollywood tradition, supports a mother, an ailing War-veteran father, three small sisters on his salary as a stock contract player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Last week Professor Paul John Hanzlik, a San Francisco pharmacologist who has long tried to dissolve bismuth in some fluid which syphilitics may swallow, announced success. His success implied a more comfortable method of treating the estimated 508,000 new cases of this venereal disease which develop in the U. S. each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bismuth Drink | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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