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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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2) An old army sgt. would desert in the face of the enemy-Grant's action in going after the temple of gold can be called nothing else from a military point of view.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

At Florida City there was a flurry of excitement just before the President shifted from train to motor car. A male figure in brown sweater and dark trousers was seen lurking by the road. Secret Service and police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

>Only 18.8% believe that the Roosevelt Administration should "continue with more reforms along the lines already laid out" (FORTUNE). Of the rest 40.5% want to "try nothing new," 26.9% want conservatives to "undo the damage already done," 13.8% don't know.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mood | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

>Sore spot of the Conference was the mosquito problem. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of the eastern U. S. (end to end, they would belt the world at the equator three times) have dried up swamp vegetation, starved out wildlife. And all for nothing, according to Dr. Clarence Cottam, chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wildlife Conference | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

(especially old Charlie Chaplin films), he looks back upon his film debut in Moonlight Sonata as an intensely uncomfortable experience. "There were too many repetitions and too many lights. I can only play at ease in subdued light." At the radio, over which he has made only two broadcasts, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Veteran | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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