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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bigwig Texas Democrats who are nursing the Garner embryo would rather have waited awhile. But when Red River County invited them to its party, they could do nothing but accept.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Out for Deer | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Reservations. The other twelve "democracies" represented at Lima are governments of as many different shades of oligarchy and totalitarianism as there are colors in their flags. Their economies are also heterogeneous, ranging from that of Bolivia, which exports almost nothing but minerals, to Argentina, which exports almost nothing but agricultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Lima | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Many points of possible Franco-German friction were left hanging. Nothing whatever was said about German (or Axial) claims to French colonies (like Algeria), protectorates (like Tunis) or mandated territories (like Cameroon, formerly German). Nor was there any mention of the moribund but unrenounced treaty of mutual aid between France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hatchet Buried? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

>In a speech at Bradford, President of the Board of Education Earl De La Warr (pronounced "Delaware") despaired of ever appeasing the dictators: "There is a growing feeling that there is nothing we can do to satisfy them, that friendly words and friendly actions are mistaken for cowardice, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Apparatus Oiled | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

For weeks official war communiqués from both sides have reported "nothing worth mentioning on any front" but from the activity behind Insurgent lines last week it was evident that some front would soon be blazing. Despite the fact that snow blankets many sectors of the front and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: The Big Push? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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