Word: gordian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in knowing how the current test (Feb. 27) cut a Gordian knot. Weighing the qualifications of several applicants for an editorial job of preparing news broadcasts we found them fairly equally matched in background, experience and ability. An essential qualification for news commentary writing, however, is a ready knowledge of current affairs. TIME arrived as the applicants cooled their heels; five minutes later they were taking the test. A half-hour later the new editorial writer was chosen-a man who can get 92 in a TIME Current Events Test is up with the news...
...Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part of the exhibition was devoted to specimens of the cubist, futurist and surrealist schools whose experiments with scientific form and fantastic subject matter have made a Gordian knot of artistic theories. Art critics in Paris, London and Manhattan last week regarded Adolf Hitler's latest slash at this knot as possibly something more than the action of a man who lacks either the subtlety to untie it or the humor to let it alone. European surrealists have...
...project of the Senior Committee severs the Gordian knot of hoary inefficiency and greases the wheels of progress. Seniors who have had previous experience in Album management will be able to accomplish their task with less trouble and nervous palpitations. The student Council deserves credit for its timely action...
...with German criminals and imbeciles beyond the pale of citizenship, franchise and eligibility for State office. Complicated fractional categories for fixing the exact status of part-Jews as to political rights and marriage make the decrees a maze but a great pair of scissors is provided to cut all Gordian knots. Realmleader Adolf Hitler has overruling power in all respects. As a one-man Jew's Supreme Court he can dispense such exceptional favors as permitting Soviet Ambassador Suritz to keep an apple-cheeked, 16-year-old scullery maid. Unprintable were the explosions of wrath in the Corps Diplomatique...
...Council left all details to Premier Benito Mussolini's keen henchman at Geneva, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Chairman of the League's Saar Committee (TIME, Dec. 17). If the Committee gets bogged before Feb. 15, Baron Aloisi will ask the Council to meet in extraordinary session, cut Gordian knots...