Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch has an almost mystic reputation as the Man Who Can Solve Anything, the Baruch Report issued last week was widely and wrongly billed as a complete postwar blueprint. This impression was reinforced by its sheer bulk: 120 mimeographed pages, 30,000 words, one pound...
...came a footnote. London Daily Express Correspondent Cedric Salter quoted an unnamed Rumanian who saw Hitler four weeks ago: "I would not say that the war has changed Hitler much outwardly, but of late it has developed one side of his character abnormally. Before the war he was half mystic, half brutal opportunist. The opportunist has faded and with his growing personal solitariness he has become more & more otherworldly. He sleeps badly . . . rarely rises before 10:30 or 11... insists upon being alone for at least an hour each day. . . . His habits are even simpler than they were three years...
...Mystic Maize. In The Bronx, N.Y., Charles P. Cobb had his name changed to Howard DeP. Indiancorn...
...last day of the month Harvard students are broke, 39 is a mystic Hindu number (like Ali Babs and the Forty Thieves, of which one was just poor but honest)., and the average allowance of students in Indic Philology 39b is 39 dollars (amazing coincidence you think?). Now who takes Ind. Phil. 39b. a snap course, why that great group of takers of snap courses, the Lampoon. There we have it. Last day, 39 dollars, Ind. Phil. 39b. 'Poon. It's plain as day. THE 'POON DID IT. That's all right, folks, don't applaud. It was elementary...
...Under whatever semblance or form of World Federation may be established [after the war], China will never, judging from her present experiences during the war, be accorded true equality, because she is Asiatic." 2) A mystic belief that Asia will come into its own. "I saw China growing strong, and Russia growing stronger, and all Asia growing strong. I know that this nation of 450,000,000 people, united and awakened and purged by the war-fire, is coming up; the strength lies in her and nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down...