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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, if Ambassador Joe Kennedy's speech in London last fortnight led anyone to think that President Roosevelt approved a do-nothing policy regarding foreign militarists and their designs, the President last week made his position clear by a series of performances:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

But these deeds were as nothing to his turning of the face of Turkey from East to West. The abolition of the veil, fez, the institution of polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Atat | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Today, Miss Densmore's principal concern is in getting her thousands of Indian recordings transferred to permanent, standard phonograph discs. Of her past adventures and hardships she speaks modestly. Says she: "I have no special philosophy, but nothing downs me."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoop Collector | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

At the New York Herald Tribune's eighth annual Forum on Current Problems. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn (Little Women, Little Minister, Alice Adams, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street), attacked the cinema industry for its ostrich attitude: ". . . Let a movie try to depict situations in which we are all involved now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

The question of the University's tax-exemption was a burning one at the turn of the century as well as today, and Hull remembers being assigned by his managing editor to go down to City Hall and get material for a special article on the subject. Nothing came of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recalls Roosevelt On 'Crimson" in '02 | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

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