Word: nil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trifle excessive. Many a musical has been fresher, cleverer, more original; several Cole Porter shows have had wittier lyrics, catchier tunes. But as a splendiferous version of regulation musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady is all there. Its costumes are gorgeous, its goings-on boisterous. Its wit is almost nil, but its wisecracks are raw as a cannibal sandwich, suggestive as a red light burning in the hall. Bert Lahr is at his best-which is good enough. Ethel Merman is at her best -which is tops...
Prague papers reported that German artillery and bombers were pounding away experimentally last week at a section of the "Czechoslovak Maginot Line" which was surrendered after Munich, boasted: "The results of the artillery bombardment have been almost nil and only one out of 60 shelters bombed by the airplanes has been destroyed." The French Maginot Line, according to France's War Ministry month ago, is constantly being reinforced. And while French experts oversaw the construction of the Czech fortifications, it is not likely that they shot the complete works on the defenses of a foreign country. Nevertheless, it must...
...mortuis nil nisi bonum...
TIME'S motto: De mortuis nil hokum...
...flung cosmic ray empire, has checked up on the variation. Another cosmic ray bigwig, Professor Manuel Sandoval Vallarta of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calculated what it should be theoretically, after discounting the effect of the magnetic field of the sun. On making this correction, the observed variation was practically nil. Hence, Dr. Compton now prefers to believe that the cosmic rays come from within, not without, the Milky Way-that they whiz around inside it like rats in a trap, prisoned there by the gigantic magnetic field of the galaxy, while electrically neutral starlight escapes to the outside...