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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trenches bisecting the Yard from the McKean gate to University Hall and beyond were discovered yesterday to be nothing more than sites for new electrical conduits.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD TRENCHES | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

Democrats. As the party in power, Democrats debouched upon the nation from Washington. To crucial Pennsylvania-for which Harry Hopkins last fortnight authorized 10,000 new WPA jobs-went Postmaster General Farley to warn a $100-a-plate dinner in Philadelphia that nothing could so comfort Republicans as to win...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Compressed Air | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Colorado's boyish Governor Teller Ammons bet Texas' boyish Governor James V. (for nothing) Allred that the University of Colorado would whip Texas' Rice Institute in a football game last January. The stakes: Pike's Peak v. Big Bend State Park on the Rio Grande. Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

The Meaning of Progressive Education lies deeper, however, than questions of efficiency. For the first principle and the religion of Progressive Educators is democracy, and their biggest question: how to achieve it. On the left wing a group thinks that Progressive Education should be chiefly concerned with the social order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Progressives' Progress | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

To Galatz, Rumania, from Warsaw suddenly traveled Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck seeking audience with King Carol to urge Hungary's claims. He was received coldly. Soon afterward His Majesty and Premier Patriarch Miron Cristea let the Rumanian censorship pass news that the Pole "achieved nothing that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Constitution | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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