Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is nothing new for artists to fake antiques. Nor is it new for confidence men to take in wealthy suckers by posing as artists. But in France and in Lexington, Ky. last week two extraordinarily clever fakers provided two new twists to an old gag.
There are but two modern ways of mass-producing glass containers, the "suction" and the "gob" processes. Patents to machinery for the former are held by Owens-Illinois Glass Co., for the latter by the Hartford-Empire Co. Last year 67.4% of all glass containers in the U. S. were...
In the world of education President Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago is known as "the boy wonder." In the non-cloistered world, 40-year-old Dr. Hutchins has made no such reputation. Franklin Roosevelt once summoned him to Washington for a high New Deal post but nothing...
A good deal more wrought up than slow-spoken Carmi Thompson, Chairman Marshall pointed out that a Department of Justice investigation four years ago found nothing wrong. Snapped he: "If the SEC followed the same liquidity rule they are trying to force on us they would ruin a good many...
In contrast to Rilke, Frederic Prokosch relies on nothing but Prokosch. But on close examination, most readers will find Prokosch to be unreliable. An Austrian-American, instructor at Yale, Frederic Prokosch has written two novels (The Asiatics, The Seven Who Fled) which tickled occidental yogi-men. An able verbal fakir...