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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I truly think that nothing has been accomplished in the way of appeasement. But we must keep trying for peace or we shall have only two alternatives-and both are very bad: first, economic chaos and second, war.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Parties & Visitors | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

The retirement of Professor Lowes will deprive the University of the active service of one of the greatest literary scholars of our time, one who has harmoniously blended the gift of erudition and the gift of criticism. He has touched nothing he has not adorned. His "Convention and Revelt in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Lowes, 71 Today, Will End Long Teaching Career at Harvard This Spring | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

A frank interview with the most hated German of 1918 about the most hated German of 1938 would be news in any language. Last week, Ken ("The Insider's World"), carried, well inside its lush pages, something that purported to be such a scoop. Titled "The Kaiser on Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Something of a Dilettante | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

W. W. Smith had moved its New York office to Brooklyn, where Mr. Thompson interviewed a "funny looking customer" named Vernard who remarked: "I hear you're doing a lot of alcohol business these days." Mr. Thompson found that the crude drug department warehouses were nothing but addresses-one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Drug Mystery | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

One fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: De Luxe | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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