Word: nil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the public, as well as their elected representatives must realize, is that the armament trade is an international problem, so complicated by technical, political, and moral issues as to render the likelihood of practical legislation virtually nil. The armament trade is bound to flourish so long as the world is torn by the political animosities that threaten it today...
Margaret Bruening of the New York Post: "A stunt canvas. ... It has no apparent artistic value-its organization is nil, its color unpleasant." Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times: "An extraordinarily fine piece of . . . painting. The composition seems flawless; the color orchestration, subtle and convincing." Second prize ($1,000) went to Germany's Karl Hofer for an apathetic picture of three scantily clad males. U. S. Artist Sidney Laufman took the $500 third prize with a pleasant, unexciting Spring Landscape. The Allegheny Garden Club gave André Derain a $300 prize for a vase of roses...
...face contorted with rage, he paddled the harder, but in vain, and on seeing himself nearing the shore, he leaped overboard with a shrill cry of despair and began to swim away. Though his efforts were heroic, his progress was practically nil, and some thirty seconds later he was rapidly overhauled by a long arm, which ignominiously lifted and deposited him in the bottom of the boat, defeated, but not discouraged, thwarted, but not downhearted, but very, very...
...never more than 112 ft., Hansen thought it the nastiest job of his career, said he was bumped against rocks and whirled around until he was groggy. By week's end he had encountered six drowned hulks, identified none as the Hussar. But Diver Hansen appraised as practically nil the chances of the rival Josephine, whose backers remained anonymous last week. Wearing ordinary diving-suits, the Josephine's divers worked only during slack tide, 20 min. twice...
...Schuster is known as an enthusiast, in literature and music, who lets his tastes dictate more of his business than any "opportunist" would dare to do. I am sure that he has forgiven you; but as for myself I wince when TIME takes liberties with living souls. De vivis nil nisi bonum...