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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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1) Begin monthly old-age insurance payments in 1940 instead of 1942. This would help already insured oldsters who now get nothing but lump-sum settlements of their claims, totaling only $12,000,000 since 1937.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Pie from the Sky | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Premier Negrin offered publicly to mediate the war on three conditions: 1) that Spain would be freed of foreign influence (meaning Italians and Germans); 2) that a Government be established through a plebiscite (meaning the probable displacement of Generalissimo Franco); 3) that the liquidation of the war be accompanied without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Police Job | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Nothing could have delighted the European democracies more and nothing could have been less pleasing to the dictatorships than the report last week that President Roosevelt had told a Senate Committee that the U. S. defense frontiers were in France (see p. 12). The French and British press shouted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Enemy of Peace | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

In the Field House bangs a complicated chart which looks like a series of baseball diamonds strung together. But it has nothing to do with baseball; rather it shows the scores of Harvard-Yale track meets for many years back--a fluctuating red line for the Crimson and a blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

It was well known to the Indian scouts of the days of '49 that nothing is worse than a drunken Indian. In the unpublished correspondence of old Jim Bridger there is, in fact, a statement to the effect that "there's nuthin' wuss'n a drunk Injun." This fact is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO FIREWATER | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

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