Word: nils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educational conversion of the South would take much longer than the available time, which is nil. But some temporary relief may arise from anti-lynch petitions, like that which the Harvard Inter-Race Council will circulate tonight in an open meeting in the Lowell Junior Common Room. We cannot afford to let the lobbies, campaigns, and popular waves of indignation continue their peace-time feebleness into...
...Commanding General [Short], the Commander in Chief of the Fleet [Kimmel] and their principal staff officers considered the possibility of air raids. Without exception they believed that the chances of such a raid while the Pacific Fleet was based upon Pearl Harbor was practically nil...
...seismologist, does not want to be an alarmist -but he does his duty when he sees it. In the closing days of 1940, two earthquakes shook solid old New England, which is far outside the zone of major quakes (TIME, Jan. 6). Property damage was small and casualties practically nil; in Peru, Japan or California, the shocks would have been dismissed as trivial. Last week Dr. Leet said they might augur worse shocks to come...
Ginger Rogers can not only sing, dance, and be a bachelor mother; she can act. In the movie version of Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle Miss Rogers proves herself worthy of a Little Oscar at the end of the year. The action in the movie is almost nil, as the theme of the work is the circumstances which make up the life of the feminine white collar worker of the past decade. When woman got the right to vote she put herself on the same plane as man and her troubles began. Kitty Foyle is a character-who comes from...
...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...