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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blake's appearance was handsome, resolute and rather wild, with very large eyes. His theory of art excluded ordinary realism, involved an utter dependence on imagination and on clear and perfect line in rendering it. "All the copies, or pretended copies of Nature, from Rembrandt to Reynolds, prove that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Blake | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week, at the Berlin Automobile Show, for the second time in a year Adolf Hitler posed alongside a gleaming sample of his $396 Strength Through Joy flivver. Well did he know, but nothing did he say about the wretchedly slow progress in production of the Volkswagen, which was conceived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Hitler Hobby | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Sixty years ago most scholars graduated from U. S. schools and colleges had nothing tangible to show for it. To an Iowa country school teacher who knew a thing or two about psychology, that seemed an undesirable state of affairs. So he set up a shop in Maquoketa, Iowa and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Diploma Business | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Nothing in her book quite lives up to her wide-eyed statement on p. 14 that "our family ties were abnormally close" - unless it is her name for the family's official residence in Berlin - "The Chancery." Before she would admit that she was really in chancery, Germany had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Chancery | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

She became great pals with Rolf Diels, the Chief of the Secret Police, who looked like a Hollywood gangster, with "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, who swore that she was just the woman Hitler needed. (He introduced her to the Führer, but nothing came of it.) She attended the Reichstag trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Chancery | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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