Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Her Majesty knows when these little courtesies count. She was not at home when ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan toured European courts, but she went out of her way to give a ceremonious welcome to Hirohito, then Crown Prince and now Emperor of Japan. Afghanistan meant nothing in The Netherlands...
Defiant speeches drew a crowd of thousands, and patient Czech police, without truncheons or revolvers, began slowly and persuasively to edge the excited students down toward the river. Some students who refused to be herded broke from the rest, dashed into old Palace Square. Since they seemed bent on nothing...
Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one...
What Picasso's effect on the future will be, no one yet can say. Doubtless he is content to have provided so many possible breaks with the past. "In the old days," he told a disciple in 1935, "pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something...
Paced by smooth-passing, slick-running, drop-kicking Nile Kinnick, the little band of Hawkeyes (Anderson uses only five or six substitutes a game) came from behind to lick mighty Minnesota, 13-to-9-their first victory over Minnesota in ten years. At the start of the season, even the...